Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
Obedient people never trust in themselves.
We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.
You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity.
You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else.
Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.
In your nature, eternal Godhead, I shall come to know my nature. And what is my nature? It is fire, because you are nothing but a fire of love. And you have given humankind a share in this nature, for by the fire of love you created us.
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
Love does not stay idle.
The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.
It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.
Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.
Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.
The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.
Heaven is along the way.