There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.

Love transforms one into what one loves.

Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.

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

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.

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