“A farm without cultivation produces nothing either for the owner or farmer. Religion without worship serves nothing,...

[In the Jesuit novitiate] “I had something to learn from everyone, and in truth I learned it, with the help of God's...

“In the province of Tarragona I was loved by nearly all the people, but there were a few who wished me dead. The...

“At the beginning of my stay in Vic I was undergoing an experience not unlike what goes on in a blacksmith's shop. The...

"The most productive means I have used has been adult instruction. It has helped me rescue adults from an ignorance...

“The Lord has freed me from death. In this square there were five blockades, one in each entrance to a street....... I...

Seeing the great lack of evangelical and apostolic preachers in our Spanish territories, the people’s great desire to...

“The ministry of the Word--at once the most exalted and invincible of all ministries because it has overcome the world...

“It is very important to be devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary. She will free you from evils and troubles of body and...

Jesus Christ was pierced in his heart from where blood and water flowed out and were formed the seven sacraments of...

“Four main things: Silence, patience, prayer and hope. Because the merit is in one´s suffering with regard to what he...

“Before he crows, the cock first beats his wings; I, before preaching, should move and beat the wings of study and...

“When I was ten years old, I was allowed to make my First Communion. Words cannot tell what I felt on that day when I...

“My heart is broken by pain when I see in this diocese of Vic so many priests without having to do anything and so...

“It is not enough or sufficient to fulfil; like good Christians that we assist at Mass and receive communion to make...

“Glory to the Father, because he is my creator. Glory to the Son because he is my Redeemer. Glory to the Holy Spirit...

“I, Anthony Claret, was last of all. And, indeed, they were all better educated and more virtuous than I so that I...

“The soul that with meditation does not rise up with the wings of faith to the creator of these things, who is more...

“I owe God endless thanks for providing me such good companions. The conduct of all of them was above reproach. They...

“Christ our Lord is a good model of this way of working heroically: he went by foot tirelessly to all the villages of...

“The one who has zeal, desires and tries by all means possible that God be known, loved and served in this life and in...

“His only concern is how he can best follow Jesus Christ and imitate Him in working, suffering, and striving...

“To conserve and increase this love or charity, you have to see Jesus Christ himself in each one of our neighbours in...

“My God, how good and wonderful you have been to me! You surely used strange means to uproot me from the world and an...

“My God, how good you are! How rich in mercy you have been to me! If you had given others the graces you have given...

“In these last times it seems God wants the laity to have an important role in the salvation of the souls” Las...

“When Jesus Christ and his doctrine are despised, life is despised in the moral and social intelligence. A nation´s...

“Jesus tells those who receive Holy Communion, `Take, drink and eat; this is my body, broken for you; take and drink;...

“But I tell you, with St. Paul, that I am not afraid of any of these things, nor do I esteem my life more than my...

“Catholic religion alone, divine in its origin, divine in its propagation, divine in its conservation, tells man: With...

“[Mary] is the channel from heaven through which all the graces we need flow to keep us away from evil and to do good....

“Tomorrow I leave for a town called Pinto for preaching and administering the sacrament of confirmation; and then I...