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"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things."
"God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination."
"God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail."
"That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become."
"Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you."
"You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation."
"Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself."
"Love and say it with your life."
"O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed."
"No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old."
"All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself."
"No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother."
"Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?"
"Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine."
"Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?"
"The measure of love is to love without measuring."
"God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it."
""Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them."
"The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home."
"Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society."