Love does not stay idle.

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

The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.

Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My Divine Nature with your human nature. This greatness is given in general to all rational creatures, but, among these I have especially chosen My ministers for the sake of your salvation, so that, through them, the Blood of the humble and immaculate Lamb, My only-begotten Son, may be administered to you.

We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.