“Ingratitude is the soul’s enemy… Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.”

Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of God.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor’s glory.

Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man’s heart.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear.

The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And what can I see as I look through the hole?

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

Who loves me will love my dog also.

Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it’s all open and it’s all love.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

I don’t jump to conclusions I gracefully fall to them.

It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.

Rest easy, dear heart grace has come for you.

Slow and steady said “what race?” Slow and steady, one with grace.

Forgiveness is truly the grace by which we enable another person to get up, and get up with dignity, to begin anew.