I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

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

Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

The measure of love is to love without measuring.