If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

You should never praise anyone until you see how he turns out in the end!

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often.

Love endures everything, love is stronger than death, love fears nothing.

In order to keep the lamp burning you have to keep putting the oil in it.

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.

We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.

Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time.

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

If you conduct yourself with peace love and compassion, then you are God.

Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.

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

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.

God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.

It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.

The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.

You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do.

Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

I belong to Jesus. He must have the right to use me without consulting me.

Sometimes a good feeling from inside is worth much more than a beautician.

The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.

We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Thus, the Lingam is the simplest sign or symbol of Emergence and Mergence.

We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

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

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

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