For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

... people become like what they love.

We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.