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

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

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

You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.

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.

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