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

Believe me, there is no more powerful means to obtain God's grace than to employ the intercessions of the Holy Virgin.

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.

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

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

Where there is no great mortification there is no great sanctity.

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.