Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”
You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!
You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.
O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?
We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.
Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.
Love transforms one into what one loves.
Consider God’s charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?
God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.
A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.