The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.
Heaven is not made for the slothful.
To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.
The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.
A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.
The man who loves God with a true heart, and prizes him above all things, sometimes sheds floods of tears at prayer, and has in abundance of favours and spiritual feelings coming upon him with such vehemence, that he is forced to cry out, "Lord! let me be quiet!