I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Attract them by the way you live.
God gives where he finds empty hands.
We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.
Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.
I am convinced that in all history there has never been a greater need to Pray for our Pastors than exists right now! Pastors are experiencing an unprecedented wave of attacks, stresses, challenges. obstacles. pressures.
For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.
Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.
Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.
I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.