We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

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.

Penance to be sure must be used as a tool, in due times and places, as need may be. If the flesh, being too strong, kicks against the spirit, penance takes the rod of discipline, and fast, and the cilice of many buds, and mighty vigils; and places burdens enough on the flesh, that it may be more subdued. But if the body is weak, fallen into illness, the rule of discretion does not approve of such a method.

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

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

too great pity is the greatest cruelty.