O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you "today" never comes to an end: and yet our "today" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply "today."

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.