Ahead! Courage! In the spiritual life he who does not advance goes backward. It happens as with a boat which always must go ahead. If it stands still the wind will blow it back.

The sacred gift of prayer is in the right hand of our Savior, and according to the measure that you empty yourself of yourself, that is of love of your senses and of your own will, and make progress in rooting yourself in holy humility, to that extent the Lord will speak to your heart.

Ahead! Courage! In the spiritual life he who does not advance goes backward. It happens as with a boat which always must go ahead. If it stands still the wind will blow it back.

I want to be only a poor friar who prays - if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!

Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?

Our Lord sends the crosses; we do not have to invent them.

I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.