If you correspond to the designs of God, He will make a saint of you.

He who does not mortify his palate will neither know how to mortify his flesh.

As for me, I cannot understand how it is possible not to be always thinking of God.

Place your hopes in the mercy of God and the merits of our Redeemer; say often, looking at the crucifix: There are centered all my hopes.

The passion of Jesus is a sea of sorrows, but it is also an ocean of love. Ask the Lord to teach you to fish in this ocean. Dive into its depths. No matter how deep you go, you will never reach the bottom.

Be as eager to break your own will as the thirsty stag is to drink of the refreshing waters.

Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without relish, the contentment of doing God's will. Thus after the winter the spring will come, with its flowers, and you will hear the voice of the turtle-dove in this land.