“He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.”

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

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.