If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins..

Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are i….

God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you..

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God..

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which yo….

There is no greater misery than false joys..

Who loves me will love my dog also..

All things are possible to one who believes..

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable..

Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's..

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility..

Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the ….

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary..

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, ro….

Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man.

Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire….

Thus understanding and love, that is, the knowledge of and delight in the truth, are, as it were, the two arms of the soul, with which it embraces an….

Obey your bishop! "Obey those set over you [Heb 13:17]," the teachers of the Church... I remind you, my dear friends, of what I said when I was with ….

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and t….

We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable..

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart..