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Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
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.
My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.
Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.
No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.
It is impossible for one to live without tears who considers things exactly as they are.
Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.
I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.
As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.
The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.
Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.
Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.
May the Child Jesus be the star that guides you through the desert of your present life.
The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love.
It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.
The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.
Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.
Do your duty and think about God all day from morning to evening. See everything as God.
Do not presume to choose your own way of serving instead of the one I have made for you.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.
It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?
Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.
Hide nothing from your confessor... a sick man can be cured only by revealing his wounds.
Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.
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In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.
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.
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.
Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.
Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.