We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.