Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

Every vocation becomes more agreeable when united with devotion.

To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.

The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.