He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

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

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

They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.