The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.

You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.

Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else.

No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.