You know all about love, but that is not enough. You must also learn that hate comes from God as well, that it too is in the Lord's service. And in times like these, with the world fallen to the state it has, hate serves God more than love.

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

ADAM AND EVE, sitting in Paradise, chatting:"If we could only open the gate and leave," says Eve."To go where, my dearest?""If we could only open the gate and leave!""Outside is sickness, pain, death!""If we could only open the gate and leave!

Because what God wants, that, and only that, is also what we want—but we don't know it. God comes and awakens our souls, revealing to them their real, though unknown, desire. This is the secret, Brother Leo. To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will.

It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.

I pity the village where no one is a saint, but I also pity the village where everyone is a saint!

What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.

It's possible to save oneself from Satan, Father Francis, but from men—never!