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

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

Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.

No, he can never be lost who recommends himself to thee, O Mary.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

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.

How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?