“With the arrows of your charity you have pierced our hearts, and we bore your words within us like a sword penetrating us to the core”....

“You are all looking forward to greeting Christ seated in heaven. …attend to him hungry, attend to him shivering with cold, attend to him needy, attend...

 “God sometimes leaves our prayers unanswered in order to increase our desire. He who knows what to give and to whom to give it will give...

“He who is not willing to pardon his brother must not expect an answer to his prayers” (Rule 10.3)

“if you knock with pious affection and with sincere heartfelt love, the who sees from what motive you knock will open unto you”. (On Ps 93....

“Many cry to the Lord to avoid losses or to accquire riches, for the safety of their friends or security of their homes, for temporal happiness...

“The more we love God, the more we love ourselves” (Trinity VIII. 12)

“It is not good for you to be without temptation. Do not, therefore, ask God not to be tempted, but not to be led into temptation”...

“The very effort involved in prayer calms and purifies the heart and makes it large enough for the reception of the divine gifts that are poured...

“It is not words that God wants of you, but your hearts” (Sermon 91. 3)