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.

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.

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.