Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he comes in the clouds of heaven.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?

God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.