Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.
The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.
Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.
The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.
As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.
He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.