A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

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

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.

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.