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

We trust and believe in what we love.

We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

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.

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.

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

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.

Excuses are the cradle that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

Rock has always been the devil’s music… I believe that rock & roll is dangerous… I feel that we’re only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

Don’t play with the Devil, he always cheats.

The Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.

I want more for you than you want for yourself. Everyone needs an advocate who’s not the devil. – your advocate.