“Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.”

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God’s sake.

I am the herald of the Great King.

The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.

Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.

Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day through whom You give us light. And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour; of You, Most High, he bears the likeness.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Father if you don’t take me any further I honor the gifts you’ve given me thus far.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

One of my strongest gifts is that I’m pretty straightforward.

Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.