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Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.

We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.

The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.

If [we] have no chosen the kingdom of God [first], it will make in the end no difference what [we] have chosen instead.

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom