Let us pray God, if He gives us any virtue or any gift, to keep it hidden even from ourselves, that we may preserve our humility, and not take occasion of pride because of it.

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.

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

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

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

In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world: and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next.

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.