The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved.

My Jesus, if you uphold me, I shall not fall.

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.