"You Cannot Go Towards Holiness Without Passing Through Humanity"

The ignorant man clings to the dust until he becomes dust; the wise and prudent man clings to heaven until he reaches heaven. You will belong to the place to which you cling.

Everything you think you possess

in this world, in reality, it owns you.

Whatever you think is under your dominion in this world, in reality, it is dominating you. All the things in

this world which you seek to control make you a partner of the evil one.

You exist in this world to give and serve, not to possess and command.

Always distinguish between your desires and your needs. Man longs for many things he does not need, and needs many things he does not desire.

Your wealth is measured by the lack of your needs, not by the plenitude of your possessions.

On the Lord's way, if you stand back a step, the Devil makes you go back ten. However, if you advance one step, the Lord helps you advance a hundred.

You cannot go toward holiness without passing through humanity.

Things that happen in you are much more important than those that happen to you.

The more the holiness grows in man, the more he ceases to see it.

The full thimble and the full pot are alike. Whether you are a pot or a thimble, the most important thing is that you are full. Try always to be full, whatever your size may be.

Do not be distracted with outside things. The things around you, before you and behind you are less valuable than the things inside you.

You cannot lift people higher than yourself, but if Christ is in you, you can go up and draw them to you.

When you climb high, pull your brothers towards you. Christ raised you when He was lifted up, so raise your brothers, as you are raised through the power of Christ. As you are drawn towards Christ, you will draw people around you.

Put in your head the wisdom of nature, in your heart its beauty and in your spirit the power of its constant renewal.

—Saint Charbel