Obedience is the true holocaust which we sacrifice to God on the altar of our hearts.

At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.

Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience.

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.

If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

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.