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

When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.

O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?

And let the truth be your delight...Proclaim it..., but with a certain congeniality.

O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature.

We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."