Saints are Lonely

The one who does good to everyone will eventually fail and do evil. At this point, everyone they helped will turn away from them and they will only have God who forgives everyone who cries out to Him. For this reason, in the end, God is the only friend of the righteous.

To Obey Is Better Than Sacrifice

"When St. Teresa of Availa saw a friend perform certain rigorous acts of penance, she felt a great desire to imitate her. Her confessor forbade her to do this. When she was tempted to disobey him, God told her, 'My daughter, you are on a good and safe road. Do you look at the penance she does? I put a greater value on obedience!"
-Francis de Sales

No Middle Way

"Either therefore you must so far renounce your Christianity as to say that you need never perform any of these good works of Charity, or you must own that you are to perform them all your life in as high a degree as possible. There is no middle way to be taken..."
-William Law, A Serious Call To A Devout and Holy Life

No Deed Without Intention

“If you will stop and ask yourself why you are not as godly as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance or inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.”
-William Law