He who embraces the cross and bears it with patience lightens the weight of the cross. Indeed, the weight itself becomes a consolation; for God abounds with grace to all those who carry the cross with good will in order to please him.

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.

Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.

Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.

So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.