In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.
Our heart is restless until it rests in You.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.
Grace alone brings about every good work in us.
We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
The measure of love is to love without measuring.
If you don’t believe it you won’t understand it.