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

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

It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the mire of this world.

The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

The great thing is to become Saints.

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.