In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.
If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.
Whole prayer is nothing but love.
The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.
Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.
Make friends with angels.
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.
I err therefore I am.
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.
A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth’s eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.
Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.
There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.
To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.
Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.