In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do not know, however, that in order to grow, we need hard bread: the cross, humiliation, trials and denials.

You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased.

Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?

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

Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.

If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance!

The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.