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If God is in us, and if God is love, it is inevitable that we be brothers; because love of our neighbor is the measure of our love for God.

Every step in our life ought to tend to bring us closer to God and to bring our neighbor at least a little bit of happiness.

Feed not your spirit on anything but God. Cast off concern about things, and bear peace and recollection in your heart.

Let us live with God as with a friend, let us make our faith a living faith in order to be in communion with Him through everything, for that is what makes saints.

Here there is no more to do than surrender our intellects and reflect that they are of no avail when it comes to understanding the grandeurs of God.

Lay all your cares about the future trustingly in God's hands, and let yourself be guided by the Lord just like a little child...

The soul that is quick to turn to speaking and conversing is slow to turn to God.

The created will is not destined to be free to exalt itself. It is called to come into unison with the divine will. If it freely submits itself to this unison, then it is permitted in freedom to participate in the perfection of creation. If a free creature declines this unison, it lapses into bondage.

O sweetest Star of heaven! O Virgin, spotless, blest,

Shining with Jesus’ light, guiding to Him my way!

O Mother! ‘neath thy veil let my tired spirit rest,

For this brief passing day!

God deliver us from spiritual people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.  It would be a bad business for us if we could not seek God until we were dead to the world. Neither Magdalene, nor the woman of Samaria, nor the Canaanite woman was dead to the world when she found him.

I suppose I ought to be distressed that I so often fall asleep during meditation and thanksgiving after Holy Communion, but I reflect that little children, asleep or awake, are equally dear to their parents; that to perform operations doctors put their patients to sleep; and finally, that 'The Lord knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are but dust.' Ps. 102: 14.

He who falls alone remains alone in his fall, and he values his soul little since he entrusts it to himself alone.