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

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

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

When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.

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

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.

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