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

The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.

If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!

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

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.