Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

Glory be to God for all things!

Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.

Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.