We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.

Nothing is small if God accepts it.

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.