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.

All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.

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

And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

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

When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.