Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.

As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

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

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

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

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.