“He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.”

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.

If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.

To sing is to pray twice.

He that is jealous is not in love.

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Truth is not private property.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.

God’s highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don’t fear Him.

Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.