To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

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

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!

On this path, it is only the first step that counts.

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.

If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.