To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.

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

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

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.

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.

God is closer to us than water is to a fish.