God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.
Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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