Birth: December 23, 1807 Death: October 24, 1870
An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity..
Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin..
Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not have a kind thought fo….
I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome..
When I am before the Blessed Sacrament I feel such a lively faith that I can't describe it. Christ in the Eucharist is almost tangible to me...When i….
When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free him, you would do it. Well, brothers ….
Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say….
When people love and recite the Rosary they find it makes them better..
A son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...is a man who unceasingly expends himself to light the fire of divine love in the world. Nothing stops him..
The faith I have when I am in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament is so strong that I find it impossible to express what I feel... When the time co….
When I see the need for Divine teaching and how hungry people are to hear it, I am atremble to be off and running throughout the world, preaching the….
The Christian who desires to follow Jesus carrying his cross must bear in mind that the name "Christian" means "learner or imitator of Christ" and th….
It was the consideration of the multitude of souls which fall into the depths of Hell, because it is of faith that all those who die in mortal sin ar….
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If a person were to throw a bull….
Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically..
Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well..