It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.