"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 the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

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

At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.

He who wishes for anything but Christ, does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ, does not know what he is asking; he who works, and not for Christ, does not know what he is doing.

Heaven is not made for the slothful.

Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.