To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.

If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.

He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

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

They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.