One loving heart sets another on fire.

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself - the latter in God.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.