The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

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.

Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material goods because they have renounced the world and all its pleasures and even their own will. These are the ones who fatten their souls, enlarging them in the abyss of my charity. Then I become their spiritual provider. The Holy Spirit becomes their servant.

Obedience shows whether you are grateful.