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

Sin is the assassin of the soul.

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!

How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!

Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.

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

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.