However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.
The poor should live by alms.
We offend God because we do not know His greatness.
He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.
God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.
'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'