Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
LOVE, OUR LIFE OF POVERTY IS AS NECESSARY AS THE WORK ITSELF