Benedict Joseph Labre
God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.Collection: Religious
Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.Collection: Christian
We offend God because we do not know His greatness.Collection: Greatness
However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.Collection: Jesus
'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'Collection: Soul
I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.Collection: Fall
He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.Collection: Study
The poor should live by alms.Collection: Poor