Occupation: Writer Birth: September 27, 1696 Death: August 1, 1787
The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good..
We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and….
When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who….
Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him..
Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases..
There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence..
Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us..
So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her effo….
Saint Teresa, as the Roman Rota attests, never fell into any mortal sin; but still Our Lord showed her the place prepared for her in Hell; not becaus….
"Happy he that knows Thee, even if he knows nothing else," says St. Augustine. If we knew all the sciences and knew not how to love Jesus Christ, our….
What does it cost us to say: "My God help me! Have mercy on me!" Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be….
If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a sai….
In the Great Deluge in the days of Noah, nearly all mankind perished, eight persons alone being saved in the Ark. In our days a deluge, not of water ….
Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's..
In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to rain, because God wills it.".
He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things..
After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary..
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins,….
There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when she wishes ... He who has recourse to Mary shall be saved..
Those who say the Rosary daily and wear the Brown Scapular and who do a little more, will go straight to Heaven..
Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you..