It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.
If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."
Recommend me to the Lord and to the Virgin Mother because I am in extreme need of their help.
Faith guides even us and we follow its sure light on the way which conducts us to God and His homeland.
Always stay close to this Heavenly Mother, because she is the sea to be crossed to reach the shores of Eternal Splendour.
Jesus himself wants my sufferings; He needs them for souls.
Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.
Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul.
Ahead! Courage! In the spiritual life he who does not advance goes backward. It happens as with a boat which always must go ahead. If it stands still the wind will blow it back.
We must know how to confide. There is the fear of God and the fear of a Judas. Too much fear makes one labour without love, and too much confidence prevents from considering the danger which we must overcome.
Jesus who cannot suffer long to keep you in affliction will come to relieve and comfort you by infusing fresh courage into your soul.
We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.
Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You. . .
The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection.
In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.
Some people are so foolish that they think they can go through life without the help of the Blessed Mother.
I remind you that I belong with great ardor to everyone and for this reason I am suffering immensely for all.
I beg You, O my God, to be my life, my ship, my haven. You have made me ascend the cross of Your Son and I struggle to accept it as best I can. I am sure that I shall never come down from it.
We must hide our tears from the One who sends them, from the One who has shed tears Himself and continues to shed them every day because of mans' ingratitude.
I want to be only a poor friar who prays - if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!
Jesus wants to make us holy at all costs. . .He offers you continual proof of this.
Love Our Lady and make her loved; always recite the Rosary and recite it as often as possible.
The pain caused by this wound which He inflicts on me and the sweetness which accompanies it are so intense that I cannot even begin to describe it. However. . . this pain and this sweetness are completely spiritual, although it is also true that they are shared by the body to a high degree.
By the virtue of modesty the devout person governs all his exterior acts. With good reason, then, does St. Paul recommend this virtue to all and declare how necessary it is and as if this were not enough he considers that this virtue should be obvious to all.
Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?
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