Occupation: Writer Birth: September 27, 1696 Death: August 1, 1787
The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely….
My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of pity and love, awaiting, calling, and….
A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated..
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses..
St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what others ….
"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the sol….
What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death..
Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost throu….
The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to b….
Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the d….
Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying ou….
Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; a….
The more a person loves God, the more reason he has to hope in Him. This hope produces in the Saints an unutterable peace, which they preserve even i….
You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength d….
Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. ….
Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments..
We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all….
All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal….
All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer..
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness….
I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others..