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

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

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

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

On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. . . We have not the courage to carry our cross, and we are very much mistaken; for, whatever we do, the cross holds us tight - we cannot escape from it. What, then, have we to lose? Why not love our crosses, and make use of them to take us to heaven?

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

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.