Out of darkness is born the light.
Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist.
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
O fire of love! Was it not enough for You to have created us to Your image and likeness, and to have recreated us in grace through the Blood of Your Son, without giving Yourself wholly to us as our Food, O God, Divine Essence? What impelled You to do this? Your charity alone.
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.