too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

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.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!