Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God’s will.
Mount Calvary is the academy of love.
We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.
The Lord delights in every little step you take.
Cook the truth in charity until it tastes sweet.
During the night we must wait for the light.
It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.
Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.
Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured.
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.
Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.
Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.
We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.
We must visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament a hundred thousand times a day.
A dance is the devil’s procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.