It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.

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

God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. He thus leads them to eternal perdition. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do, and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.

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