In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.

My Jesus, if you uphold me, I shall not fall.

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

Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.

The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.