After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

A dancer differeth from a madman only in length of time; one is mad so long as he liveth, the other while he danceth.

Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not because she deserved Hell, but because, had she not risen from the state of lukewarmness in which she lived, she would in the end have lost the grace of God and been damned.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.

St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what others will say of him. O my God, why do we not ask what Jesus Christ or his holy mother will think of our conduct?