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

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

It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us, but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good.

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

My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of pity and love, awaiting, calling, and receiving all who come to visit You; I believe that You are present in the Sacrament of the Altar; I adore You from the depths of my own nothingness; I thank You for the many graces You have given me, and especially for having given me Yourself in this Sacrament.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

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?