Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

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

After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

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

"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.