Occupation: Canonized Birth: August 28, 1774 Death: January 4, 1821
If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from….
Can you expect to go to heaven for nothing? Did not our Savior track the whole way to it with His tears and blood? And yet you stop at every little p….
The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is ….
Be attentive to the voice of grace..
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family..
When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it..
Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts..
God is everywhere, in the very air I breathe, yes everywhere, but in His Sacrament of the Altar He is as present actually and really as my soul withi….
We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are so weak of ours….
We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as….
The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it..
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The mo….
Live simply, so that all may simply live..
The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cann….
We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we….
Faith lifts the soul, Hope supports it, Experience says it must and Love says...let it be!..
Afflictions are the steps to heaven..
How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound..
Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How awful those words of unloosing, aft….
I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, se….