May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.