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.

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

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

A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.

Heaven is not made for the slothful.

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

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.