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

Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.

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.

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

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

O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity.

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