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

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

In no other action can our Savior be considered more tender or more loving than in this, in which He, as it were, annihilates Himself and reduces Himself to food, that He may penetrate our souls and unite Himself to the hearts of His faithful.

It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.

Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.