“It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.”

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.

Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.

Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.

It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.

It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

Only take someone’s hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.

You may be a disaster for a day, a month, or a year. Just don’t be a disaster forever.

I can’t tell you how much I hope that you are my forever person.

The past is never gone, it simply lies beyond reach. A moment becomes a memory, the tangible becomes ethereal and now becomes forever.

Only youth has a taste of immortality.