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.

Let us be humble and keep ourselves down: - Obedience! Humility! Detachment!

It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the mire of this world.

Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.

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.

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.

He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.