The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.
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!
Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.
My Jesus, if you uphold me, I shall not fall.
Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.
My children, if you desire perseverance, be devout to our Blessed Lady.