Birth: 1090 Death: August 20, 1153
With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from dece….
The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility..
What we love we shall grow to resemble..
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservo….
The measure of love is love without measure..
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us..
O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receiv….
God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us..
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor..
Expect much of God, and he will do much for you..
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me..
Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her childre….
And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else..
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!.
Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love..
Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; th….
Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink fr….
He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds..
The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immed….
It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath th….
Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for th….