all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

He has never left you.It is justthat your soul is so vastthat just likethe earth in its innocence,it may think,"I do not feel my lover's warmthagainst my face rightnow."But look, dear,is not the sun reaching down its armsand always holding a continentin its light?God cannot leave us.It is just that our soul is so vast,we do not always feel His lipsupon theveil.

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

The human heart is always drawn by love.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

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.