If we do not use great care to mortify our will, there are many things which can deprives us of the holy freedom of spirit that we are seeking in order to fly more freely to our Creator, without always being bogged down with the clay of this earth. Moreover, there can never be solid virtue in a soul that is attached to its own will.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

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

True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.

To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.