Man is a beggar who needs to ask God for everything.
All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight of God, if we have not that universal charity for everyone - for the good, and for the bad, for the poor and for the rich, and for all those who do us harm as much as those who do us good.
I tell you that you have less to suffer in following the Cross than in serving the world and its pleasures.
If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
You cannot please both God and the world at the same time, They are utterly opposed to each other in their thoughts, their desires, and their actions.
We should consider those moments spent before the Blessed Sacrament as the happiest of our lives.
My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God.
We must always choose the most perfect. Two good works present themselves to be done, one in favor of a person we love, the other in favor of a person who has done us some harm. Well, we must give preference to the latter.
You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God.
My little children, reflect on these words: the Christian’s treasure is not on earth but in heaven. Our thoughts, then, ought to be directed to where out treasure is. This is the glorious duty of man: to pray and to love. If you pray and love, that is where a man’s happiness lies. Prayer is nothing else but union with God. In this intimate union, God and the soul are fused together like two bits of wax that no one can every pull apart. This union of God with a tiny creature is a lovely thing. It is a happiness beyond understanding.
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