Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

Sin is the assassin of the soul.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.

How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.