We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.

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

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.

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

Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.

At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.

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