“God gives where he finds empty hands.”

Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.

If you keep silent, keep silent by love: if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love; let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow. Love and do what you will.

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

Love has reasons that reason knows not.

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

When I say or do something, I do it. I don’t give a damn what you think. I’m doing this for me.

Everything that is not given is lost.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

There’s definitely a dangerous feeling when you’re in love-it’s giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that’s the dangerous thing.

We multiply the joy God gives us by sharing it.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation.