If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

No, he can never be lost who recommends himself to thee, O Mary.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

Those who say the Rosary daily and wear the Brown Scapular and who do a little more, will go straight to Heaven.

Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.