The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.
Do not put faith in constant happiness, and fear most when all smiles upon you.
Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.
God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.
Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.
In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.
Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.
To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a life which I cannot describe, a joy which I cannot make others comprehend, a peace such as is found only under the hospitable roof of our best Friend.
What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.
Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.
If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.
The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.
Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord’s sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will – that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.