“Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.”

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.

You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.

Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist

God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.

God is closer to us than water is to a fish.

It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.

Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!

Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.

A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.

Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

The word advent means “expectation.” What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.

I believe that God is not lost. He is in the middle with us right now. If people will take a few moments and take this journey, hope will rise up in their hearts. I believe that.

God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.