It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

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.

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

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

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

Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.