To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
It is better to die than to tell a lie.
When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.
Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.
How dangerous it is for our salvation, how unworthy of God and of ourselves, how pernicious even for the peace of our hearts, to want always to stay where we are! Our whole life was only given us to advance us by great strides toward our heavenly country.
I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God’s.
The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.
The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.
Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.
The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.
Pity enlarges the heart.
Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.
Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts every thing of our own planting, and set out there, with His own hands, the tree of life, bearing all manner of fruits.
Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.
Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.
Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.
Good taste rejects excessive nicety.
God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.