Since God wishes it - there is nothing to be done. . . Why should you thus torment yourself? Get rid of whatever He shows you to be an obstacle to His love, for His only desire is that you should live stripped of all that is not Himself.

Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured out for us in the sacrament of the altar. Offer God His fervent love in reparation for your sluggishness.

One just soul can attain pardon for a thousand sinners.

It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.

Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you.

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.

The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering.