The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.
The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
He that does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.
The thing always happen that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.