May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

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

Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.

He who is not getting better is getting worse.

Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks and tries to take us by storm.

Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.