A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

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

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

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

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.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

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.