Without mortification nothing can be done.

There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has in abundance of favours and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, "Lord! let me be quiet!