There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

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.

My Jesus, if you uphold me, I shall not fall.

To be without pity for other mens falls, is an evident sign that we shall fall ourselves shortly.

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

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.