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

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.

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.

Love does not stay idle.

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