John the Baptist had a most difficult office to fulfill; that of rebuking a king.

The Mass is the very breath of our spiritual life.

The weariness, aversion and aridity frequently experienced by you are the usual vicissitudes through which souls seeking God are wont to pass.

The soul desirous of progress must aim then, not at destroying its natural affections, but rather at purifying them.

Holiness is the fruit of prayer, and mental prayer is extremely difficult without the reading of spiritual books.

The development of the supernatural virtues in us is attended by a process which has a twofold aspect.

This state is at once the effect of and the condition needed for prayer. Silence is a necessary and indispensable means to prayer.

There are certain movements of will and intellect which should interpenetrate all our relations with God in much the same way as a fundamental theme runs through all the figures of a piece of music.

This "nothing" that the disciples share with Jesus expresses at once the power and the importance of the apostolic office.

All sanctity is effected in us by contact with the Sacred Humanity;  this contact is created by our willing contemplation of the great mystery of the Incarnation.