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God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.
Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.
Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.
Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.
To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.
Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).
Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.
Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.
What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.
I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.