When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.

If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.

I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.

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.

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