I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.

God is even kinder than you think.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.