By suffering we are able to give something to God. The gift of pain, of suffering is a big thing and cannot be accomplished in Paradise.

In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.

The Lord is a Father, the most tender and best of fathers. He cannot fail to be moved when His children appeal to Him.

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

Every Holy Mass, heard with devotion, produces in our souls marvelous effects, abundant spiritual and material graces which we, ourselves, do not know...It is easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass!

Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.

Only in Heaven will everything be as beautiful as spring, as pleasant as autumn, and as full of love as summer.