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

We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.

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

Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.

They who have been exercised in the service of God for a long time, may in their prayers imagine all sorts of insults offered to them, such as blows, wounds, and the like, and so in order to imitate Christ by their charity, may accustom their hearts beforehand to forgive real injuries when they come.

He who wishes for anything but Christ, does not know what he wishes; he who asks for anything but Christ, does not know what he is asking; he who works, and not for Christ, does not know what he is doing.

The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.