You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
By and by never comes.
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other’s flame.
Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.
The argument is at an end.
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?
O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
Can any praise be worthy of the Lord’s majesty?
This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it’s height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.