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.

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.

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)

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

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.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.

Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.

We dont offer you any solutions necessarily but we definitely offer you a minute to escape.

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.