We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.

For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.

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

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

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.