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

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

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

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.

He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.

They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.

In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.