O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity.

Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.

Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.