Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

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

We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.

"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."

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.

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.