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

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.

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.

Sin is the assassin of the soul.

Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.

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.

When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.