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!

On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.

Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.

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.

We must know how to confide. There is the fear of God and the fear of a Judas. Too much fear makes one labour without love, and too much confidence prevents from considering the danger which we must overcome.

The Lord our King will hold the door of His heart open for anyone who wants to enter for an audience at any time

Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.