To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

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.

The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.

We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved.

We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect from others, and it is easy to find ourselves aiming for the result rather than the cause. Let us aim for joy, rather than respectability. Let us make fools of ourselves from time to time, and thus see ourselves, for a moment, as the all-wise God sees us.

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.