Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world: and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next.

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

First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.

Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.

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

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.