To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

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.

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.

Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us.