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.

Heaven is along the way.

A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

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

You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you give yourself to man in this fire of your love

You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else.