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Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares.
Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.
Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.
Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.
Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.
It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.
We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.
Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.