What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.

The one you are looking for is the one who is looking.

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.

May the power of your love, Lord Christ, fiery and sweet as honey, so absorb our hearts as to withdraw them from all that is under heaven. Grant that we may be ready to die for love of your love, as you died for love of our love.

Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.

Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us.

There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.

Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.

Such was the will of the Father that his Son, blessed and glorious, whom he gave to us, and who was born for us, should by his own blood, sacrifice, and oblation, offer himself on the altar of the cross, not for himself, by whom "all things were made," but for our sins, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps.

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.

Make me an instrument of thy peace.

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who seem to us to be children of the Devil will still become Christ's disciples.

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

Water is the mirror of nature.

Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial.

It is good to read the testimonies of Scripture; it is good to seek the Lord our God in them. As for me, however, I have already made so much of Scripture my own that I have more than enough to meditate on and turn over in my mind. I need no more... I know Christ, the poor crucified One.

Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!

Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.