“Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.”

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.

God will become visible as God’s image is reborn in you.

Love me, love my dog.

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor’s glory.

Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.

Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.

There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.

The poison came in liquid, she was naked all the time.

War with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world.

Poison’s not bad. It’s a matter of how much.

One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.