Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

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

Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat manfully, and he will come forth victorious.

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.

Without mortification nothing can be done.