Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.