“The human heart is always drawn by love.”

Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.

All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.

You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.

The devil never sleeps.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

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.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.

Every step of the way to heaven is heaven.

Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.

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.

And let the truth be your delight proclaim it, but with a certain congeniality.

Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.

How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies.

I wouldn’t dream of working on something that didn’t make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

The universe favors the broken.

One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

Keep your heart wilder than wild.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.

These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor in a hidden place; but in watching, aware with the pure eyes of the mind and inner ear of the heart.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.