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

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

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

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

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

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!

In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world: and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next.