The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.
Imagine Jesus crucified in your arms and on your chest, and say a hundred times as you kiss His chest, "This is my hope, the living source of my happiness; this is the heart of my soul; nothing will ever separate me from His love.
Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as necessary to you as the air you breathe.
I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.
The Lord is a Father, the most tender and best of fathers. He cannot fail to be moved when His children appeal to Him.
The Rosary is THE weapon.
Only in Heaven will everything be as beautiful as spring, as pleasant as autumn, and as full of love as summer.
Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable of good or evil. But when the will sighs under the trial of the tempter and does not will what is presented to it, there is not only no fault but there is virtue.
In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.
The sacred gift of prayer is in the right hand of our Savior, and according to the measure that you empty yourself of yourself, that is of love of your senses and of your own will, and make progress in rooting yourself in holy humility, to that extent the Lord will speak to your heart.
Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?
Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.
Pray, hope, don't worry.
The Church is the house of God. It is forbidden for men to enter with bare arms or in shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter in trousers, without a veil on their head, in short clothing, low necklines, sleeveless or immodest dresses.
You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased.
May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.
We must empty purgatory with our prayers.
Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.
In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do.
Time spent in honor of God for the salvation of souls is never badly spent.
Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.
It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.
The Mother of Sorrows is my confidante, my teacher, my counselor, and my powerful advocate.
It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.
Faith guides even us and we follow its sure light on the way which conducts us to God and His homeland.
