In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.

Recommend me to the Lord and to the Virgin Mother because I am in extreme need of their help.

Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice of the royal prophet: "Today, if you hear God's voice, harden not your heart." Let us not put off from one moment to another (what we should do) because the (next moment) is not yet ours.

In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do.

Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.

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.