You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.

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.

How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us - in the depths of her own agony and desolation!

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

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

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

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.