Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
... people become like what 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.
There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.
Of course you are unworthy. But when do you hope to be worthy? You will be no more worthy at the end than at the beginning. God alone is worthy of Himself, He alone can make us worthy of Him.
Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
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.
All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.
Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.
The human heart is always drawn by love.
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.
Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.
It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.
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.
Love does not stay idle.
Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.
One who knows more, loves more.
Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult, every loss of consolation, and every sorry, from whatever direction they may come, patiently, with joy.
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