Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

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

Doubt is but another element of faith.

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.

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

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.

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.

Singing is a lover's thing.

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

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.

Every infinity... is made finite to God.

Understanding is the wages of faith.

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

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.

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

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

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

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

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

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

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.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

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."