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

My children, if you desire perseverance, be devout to our Blessed Lady.

The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.

Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.

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.

As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.

Without mortification nothing can be done.