The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has in abundance of favours and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, "Lord! let me be quiet!

It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the mire of this world.

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

To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

Without mortification nothing can be done.

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

Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.