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

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

We trust and believe in what we love.

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.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.

Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom... He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.

Out of darkness is born the light.