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

Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast.

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

There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

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.

Give me ten truly detached men. and I will convert the world with them.

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.