“If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.”

Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist’s hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross

Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!

There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Do what Jesus says… what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].

How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

The measure of love is love without measure.

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Hell is full of good wishes or desires.

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.

I am a count, not a saint.

The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.

You can watch the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Eckhart Tolle or any number of other masters. Their teachings are available and we must celebrate that.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

The dress does not make the monk.

Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?