Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
The journey is essential to the dream.
It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn’t give to someone in greater need than we are.
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.
What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.
The one you are looking for is the one who is looking.
Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.
Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission – to be of service to them whenever they require it.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.
When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.