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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?
Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.
For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.
There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.
Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.
Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
I always say "if you are afraid of them (the unborn), give them to me. Please, don't kill them."
It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.
I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.
Education must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.
If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.
Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.
If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.
The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.
You weren't created just to consume resources, you were put on this Earth to make a contribution.
Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.
Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You. . .
If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.
The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
The same know contentment, for beauty is their lover, and beauty is never absent from this world.
Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.
Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.
A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist
Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.
The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.