The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.

Laugh and grow strong.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.

He who is devout to the Virgin Mother will certainly never be lost.