If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins.

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

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.

What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

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