“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.”

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.

We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.

Love transforms one into what one loves.

Don’t make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.

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

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

No stress, no fights. I’m leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.

We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life… I think I must have been crying for some attention.

The loudest cries are heard in silence.

When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don’t feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.