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.

Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.

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

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

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