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

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.

Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.

If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.

Sin is the assassin of the soul.

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

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