I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.