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

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

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.

We must often remember what Christ said, that not he who begins, but he that perseveres to the end, shall be saved.

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

Without mortification nothing can be done.