too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.

Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.