What love commences can be finished by God alone.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.