Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

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

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!

Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.

Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.

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