“The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.”

One who knows more, loves more.

We trust and believe in what we love.

We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good.

Since love for our Creator cannot be sustained unless we love others for God’s sake.

Lord, take me from myself and give me to yourself.

It is human to sin, but diabolic to persist in sin.

It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

What father ever gave up his son to death for the sake of his slave!

There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned.

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don’t even know what you’re praying to or who you’re praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God’s always listening.

I’m actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it’s a depressing word. I don’t want to hope – I want to know. Like I don’t hope there’s a God, I know there’s a God.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

My god is a moment, a whimsical idea, a whisper. A hope bending itself into a prayer.

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.