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.

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

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

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.

On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. . . We have not the courage to carry our cross, and we are very much mistaken; for, whatever we do, the cross holds us tight - we cannot escape from it. What, then, have we to lose? Why not love our crosses, and make use of them to take us to heaven?

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