"Lack of hope is the most ordinary fault of religious people. We sin more against hope than any other virtue."

"Love is only perfect when the lover is lost irremediably in the beloved, 'I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine.' (Song of Songs...

"Jesus our Saviour fell oftentimes with the excessive weight of his cross, in order to show us that He has not called us to enjoy...

"Man is a dependent being and cannot live of himself alone. Without loving something the soul would not exist."

"We ought to read spiritual books not to find out some new or easy way to arrive at perfection but to find helps to go...

"God is God and upon this evident fundamental truth, all true spiritual life, in the last analysis exists, and all true hope is based."

"To love our neighbor as ourselves seems all the more difficult depending on how much we love ourselves."

"How can one doubt that the providence of Almighty God watches over us when we consider for a moment where we were a few years...

"We are where we are by God’s providence – except for sin – and even that is embraced in the arms of God’s providence."

"The difference between meditation and contemplation is that between someone on a strange road who has to feel his way in the dark and another...

"We have all eternity to enjoy, but only a few moments to suffer, to testify to our sincere and ardent love for our crucified Saviour...

"[T]he divine life in the soul must languish and die without the divine food of the Blessed Sacrament."