The LORD is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine PERSONS descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.

When we cannot come to church, let us turn towards the Tabernacle and make a spiritual Communion. A wall cannot separate us from GOD.

“Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and satan will leave you.

Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.

Almighty GOD sends no trial without consolation.

On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. . . We have not the courage to carry our cross, and we are very much mistaken; for, whatever we do, the cross holds us tight - we cannot escape from it. What, then, have we to lose? Why not love our crosses, and make use of them to take us to Heaven?

How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!

In your work, offer your difficulties and troubles quite simply to GOD…and you will find that His blessing will rest upon you and on all you do.

When we do something we dislike, let us say to GOD: ‘My GOD, I offer you this in honor of the moment when you died for me.

OH! How easily we could win Heaven day by day just by doing what we have to do – but by doing it for GOD!…

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please GOD, the Angels, and the Saints – they are your public.

Those who go often to Mass during the week, do their work very much better than those who, for want of Faith, think they have no time for it.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

If people would do for GOD what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.

Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!