“Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.”

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.

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

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God.

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.

Whoever loves himself or the world inordinately becomes incompatible with himself.

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.

Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

I was made for more than being stuck in a vicious cycle of defeat. I am not made to be a victim of my poor choices. I was made to be a victorious child of God.

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.