Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. |
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an 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. |
For it is in giving that we receive. |
For it is in giving that we receive. |
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. |
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. |
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed. |
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. |
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. |
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. |
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. |
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. |
It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. |
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. |
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love. |