Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have great freedom of spirit.

Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love.

Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.

Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.

Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

O King of glory, though you hide your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving you honor without cease.

He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of Jesus. (267)

I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.

God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit-that is the shortest route.

How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?

My likeness to Jesus must be through suffering and humility.

This is life...by all means necessary

Always hear others out and remain open-minded the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

The Abrahamic God is a disease masquerading as its own remedy which we desperately need to cure.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

There are so many unbelievable words... But that doesn't mean I have a favorite word.

I think once you're past 30 you shouldn't wear a lot of glitter.

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.