No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

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

It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.

God is closer to us than water is to a fish.

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.