Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.

Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

St. Jerome declares that he holds for certain, and has learned from experience, that he will never make a good end who has led a bad life to the very last: 'This I hold, this I have learned by much experience, that his will be an evil end who has always led an evil life.'

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