Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!

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.

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.

Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.

All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.

O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?

Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.