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Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

O abyss! O eternal Godhead! O deep sea! What more could you have given me than the gift of your very self?

All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

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.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!

A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.

Love transforms one into what one loves.

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

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

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.

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

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

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

You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.

Obedience shows whether you are grateful.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

One who knows more, loves more.

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

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

Heaven is along the way.

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

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

The devil never sleeps ...

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

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

Out of darkness is born the light.

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

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

The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.

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

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

The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.

You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.

Obedient people never trust in themselves.

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

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

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

There is no perfect virtue-none that bears fruit- unless it is exercised by means of our neighbor.

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

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

Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

We will be humble as we are obedient, and as obedient as we are humble.

Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love.

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

O unfathomable depth! O Deity eternal! O deep ocean! What more could You give me than to give me Yourself?

People become like what they love.

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

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

We trust and believe in what we love.

The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.

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

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

You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.

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

It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.

Too great pity is the greatest cruelty.

God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.

Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

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

And let the truth be your delight ... Proclaim it ... , but with a certain congeniality.

Love does not stay idle.

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