“The breadth of charity widens the narrow heart of the sinner.”

The wisdom of God is reflected in the face of the soul: she will see God as he is, and she will know as she is known.

Draw us forth from the mire, Lord Jesus, with the hook of your Cross; so that we may run, not to your sweetness, but to the bitterness of your Passion.

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

The life of the body is the soul, the life of the soul is Christ.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

The Lord breathes the breath of life, contrition of heart, into the face of the soul when he impresses upon it his own image and likeness, which has been soiled by sin, and renews it.

The Lord breathes the breath of life, contrition of heart, into the face of the soul when he impresses upon it his own image and likeness, which has been soiled by sin, and renews it.

He who lives in eternity dwells in the heart of the humble and in the soul of the penitent!

Do you want to have God always in your mind? Be just as he made you to be. Do not go seeking another “you”.

The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to this?

Nothing so humbles the proud sinner as the humility of Jesus Christ’s humanity.

He prays best who does not know that he is praying.

Of what value is learning that does not turn to love?

The religious soul finds in the heart of Jesus a secure refuge.

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

The wisdom of God is reflected in the face of the soul: she will see God as he is, and she will know as she is known.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.