If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He certainly intends to make you a saint.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

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

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.