Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

Give what You command and command what You will.