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

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.

Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You. . .

Why should you worry whether God wants you to reach the heavenly home by way of the desert or by the fields, when by the one as well as by the other one arrives all the same at a Blessed Eternity? Keep far from you excessive preoccupation which arises from the trials which the good God wishes to visit upon you.

I want to be only a poor friar who prays - if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!

The devil is like a rabid dog tied to a chain; beyond the length of the chain he cannot seize anyone. And you: keep at a distance. If you approach too near, you let yourself be caught. Remember that the devil has only one door by which to enter the soul: the will.