Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.
There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.
Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.
The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.
There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.
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.