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

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!

Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.

Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.

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.