There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
The sign of the cross is the most terrible weapon against the devil. Thus the Church wishes not only that we have it continually in front of our minds to recall to us just what our souls are worth and what they cost Jesus Christ, but also that we should make it at every juncture ourselves: when we go to bed, when we awaken during the night, when we get up, when we begin any action, and, above all, when we are tempted.
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.
The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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?
Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the souls and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.
We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen, we are pleased; if our faults are perceived, we are sad. I remark that in a great many people; if one says anything to them, it disturbs them, it annoys them. The saints were not like that - they were vexed if their virtues were known, and pleased that their imperfections should be seen.
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
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.
How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.
The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.
If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
