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

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

Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.

All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.

The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.

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!

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.