SAYINGS
- Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.
- Mount Calvary is the academy of love.
- You can more converts with a spoonful of honey than with a barrelful of vinegar.
- The virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy, charity, which is the virtue of virtues and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity.
- Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God
- What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
- Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
- Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.
- It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.
- You learn to love by loving.
- Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
- Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
- Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
- Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.