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

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

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

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.

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

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.