"True, God is everywhere, but we have need for Him to draw near to us under sensible signs, and this is what He does in the Blessed Sacrament. Think, then, that He is there. That Presence is sweeter, is recalled more easily than the presence of the invisible, the impalpable Divinity. It is less easily [...]
"Have you no longer any sentiment of your sins? and, if you do see them, do you correct them? No, I am constantly falling back into the same faults, without paying any great attention to it. Then, are you already dead! You are without feeling! There is no state more frightful than that in which [...]
"Delicacy, refinement, consists in permitting one's self nothing that might offend God. It consists in abstaining, from even the appearance of evil. It is the honor due to our position and life. One preserves it through respect for God and for the honor of His service. No longer to be alive to it, is to [...]
"We ought to serve God, for we are His creatures and His property. Although God gives us liberty, He does not mean to relinquish His rights over us. We belong to Him, we are His; and should we endeavor to free ourselves by disobedience, which is a true robbery of God's goods, a denial of [...]
"Ah! if we thought that Our Lord, who is so near us on the altar and in His tabernacle, inasmuch as one same roof covers us, is eye-witness of every one of our actions, and that at the end of the day we should have to appear in His august Presence to render Him an [...]
"Give all you have acquired of merits and virtue; give all you will acquire in the future by your actions, your labors, the sufferings of your whole life. If you have nothing, borrow the virtues and merits of Our Lord and of the Blessed Virgin. Beg that good Rebecca to clothe you with the garment [...]
"What constitutes the greatness and the nobility of love, is the surrender of one's liberty, present and future, tlie binding of one's self forever, admitting not even the possibility of a rupture." -St. Peter Julian Eymard
" You must perform your actions under the eye of Jesus Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament that you may do them courageously, holily, and with pleasure." -St. Peter Julian Eymard
"When there is question of working on one's self, a man experiences difficulty, he soon finds that he always does enough. But he will greatly devote himself for others, will sacrifice himself for their advancement, though he may be lax when there is question of self. In the same measure as he rushes forth to [...]
" You must be meek toward the neighbor. The principle of meekness toward the neighbor lies in charity. You will be meek toward him, if you see in him the gifts of God, if you love God in him. To love men for themselves is time and trouble lost. Men are sacks full of holes. [...]