“Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.”

Love has reasons that reason knows not.

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

We look so much on color that we forget about the soul.

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

The only thing better than finding something you are looking for is finding something you weren’t looking for at a great bargain!

I don’t want a wig that looks like a wig; I want one that could pass for a weave.

I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.