You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.
The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world. This Divine preparation opens our souls to the working and pruning of the Father.
Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.
Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.
Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering.
Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.
Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement.
When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.
As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed.
Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.