"Let us not believe that it is enough to read without unction, to speculate without devotion, to investigate without w…"

"But the soul cannot have any virtue if God is not loved with all the heart; for from that love flows the fulness of a…"

"The virtue of gratitude is extremely commendable and pleasing in the sight of God, as its opposite is a detestable vi…"

"For the nearer any one approaches to God, the more he is illuminated, and therefore the more clearly does he see the …"

"It will avail a man little to have been a religious, to have been patient and humble, devout and chaste, to have love…"

"Christ’s death on the Cross should live in our thoughts and imagination, for frequent thought on the Passion of Chris…"

"Contemplation deepens the more we feel the working of God’s grace within our hearts, and the better we learn to encou…"

"Though a superior is rather to be loved, yet by the insolent he ought to be feared."

"He would confidently affirm that the grace of prayerfulness should be more desired than all others by the religious m…"

"The world is like a book in which the creative Trinity shines, manifests itself in sensible forms and is read."