Without mortification nothing can be done.

It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the mire of this world.

He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.