"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."

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

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

Believe me, there is no more powerful means to obtain God's grace than to employ the intercessions of the Holy Virgin.

Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.

Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

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