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.
He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.
If you don’t believe it you won’t understand it.
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .
I was in love with loving.
Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.