Let us make up for lost time. Let us give to God the time that remains to us.

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

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.

There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated.

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

The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic veils, is ready to receive anyone.