To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

He who wishes for anything but Christ, does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ, does not know what he is asking; he who works, and not for Christ, does not know what he is doing.

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.

First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

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

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.