If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!

See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!

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.

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

Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.