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.

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

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

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

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

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.