“We’ve been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.”

Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist

God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.

God is closer to us than water is to a fish.

It’s one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.

Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!

Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.

A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

To the servant of God… every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.

Make yourself a “capacity” and I will make myself a “torrent.”

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.

Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

The soul, as soon as she comes to know Me, reaches out to love her neighbors.

Out of darkness is born the light.

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

Well, obviously religion must come from inside.

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

Reality is a question of perspective.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.