God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.

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

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Understanding is the wages of faith.

Every infinity... is made finite to God.

O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.

When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

Singing is a lover's thing.

You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

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."

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

Doubt is but another element of faith.

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

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

He that is jealous is not in love.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

To seek the highest good is to live well.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

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.