The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.
You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.
There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.
O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment.
It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
God is closer to us than water is to a fish.
Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.
Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
The human heart is always drawn by love.
The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.
Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.
One who knows more, loves more.
The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.
To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.
How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies...