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.

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

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

In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.

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

The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

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.