My children, if you desire perseverance, be devout to our Blessed Lady.
To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.
Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.
He who wishes for anything but Christ, does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ, does not know what he is asking; he who works, and not for Christ, does not know what he is doing.
Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.
Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.