When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.

A promise is a child of the understanding and the will; the understanding begets it, the will brings it forth.

By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.

St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.

I therefore command all my Brothers, those living now and those to come in the future, to venerate the Holy Mother of God, whom we always implore to be our Protectress, to praise her at all times, in all circumstances of life, with all the means in their power and with the greatest devotion and submission.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

Do few things but do them well, simple joys are holy.