As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.

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

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

We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect from others, and it is easy to find ourselves aiming for the result rather than the cause. Let us aim for joy, rather than respectability. Let us make fools of ourselves from time to time, and thus see ourselves, for a moment, as the all-wise God sees us.

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.

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

He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.