Believe me, there is no more powerful means to obtain God's grace than to employ the intercessions of the Holy Virgin.

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

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.

Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.

Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.

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.

A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.