Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.