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

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

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

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

We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.

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 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.