In this life there is no purgatory; it is either hell or paradise; for to him who serves God truly, every trouble and infirmity turns into consolations, and through all kinds of trouble he has a paradise within himself even in this world: and he who does not serve God truly, and gives himself up to sensuality, has one hell in this world, and another in the next.

My Jesus, if you uphold me, I shall not fall.

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.

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.

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