The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it..

All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain lab….

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and prais….

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into th….

Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man fr….

God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God l….

When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all thy heart into it; it is nothing less….

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or j….

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love..

Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life..

As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness,….

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life..

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another..

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead..

Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither….

You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-cr….

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us..

Let every creature have your love. Love, with its fruits of meekness, patience, and humility, is all that we can wish for ourselves and our fellow cr….

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state..

All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds….

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ours….