What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks...
In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
You stir us up to take delight in Your praise; for You have made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless till it finds its rest in You. from Confessions
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.
The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Find out how much God has given you, and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. The superfluities of the rich are the necessities of the poor. Those who retain what is superfluous possess the goods of others.
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give 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. For in prayer...
You have enemies, for who can live on this earth without them? For your own sake, love them. In no way can your enemies so hurt you by their violence as you hurt yourself if you do not love them.