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!

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

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

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

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.

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