To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.

To be a saint is to be yourself.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them, they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity.

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.

Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.