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

Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

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.

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

Even though a man may be unable to attain such a height of sanctity, he ought to desire it, so as to do at least in desire what he cannot carry out in effect.