We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased; if our faults are perceived, we are sad. I remark that in a great many people; if one says anything to them, it disturbs them, it annoys them. The saints were not like that - they were vexed if their virtues were known, and pleased that their imperfections should be seen.

Put a good bunch of grapes under the winepress, and a delicious juice will come out. Under the winepress of the cross, our soul produces a juice that feeds and strengthens us. When we haven't got any crosses, we are dry. If we carry them with resignation, what happiness, what sweetness we feel!

When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

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

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

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

It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.