What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.
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.
We judge all things according to the divine truth.
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other’s lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.
Things are solved by walking around.
Whoever possesses God is happy.
Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.
One loving heart sets another on fire.
Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink.
Salvation is God’s way of making us real people.
Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.