“I will attempt day by day to break my will into pieces. I want to do God’s Holy Will, not my own”
“My life inside here [the Passionist house] is bursting with joy!”
“Love Mary!… She is loveable, faithful, constant. She will never let herself be outdone in love, but will ever remain supreme. If you are in danger, she will hasten to free you. If you are troubled, she will console you. If you are sick, she will bring you relief. If you are in need, she will help you. She does not look to see what kind of person you have been. She simply comes to a heart that wants to love her. She comes quickly and opens her merciful heart to you, embraces you and consoles and serves you. She will even be at hand to accompany you on the trip to eternity” – to his brother
“With sin, O Jesus, I gave you the death, but I do not despair of your forgiveness. Those scourges call me, those arms extended invite me, that injured Heart offers me a secure shelter.”
“Who it will be able ever to repeat the pains, the strains and the sufferings that Jesus suffered in such little time. We see Jesus in the garden of the olives, after being separated from His Sorrowful mother, how he is pale and trembling with fear, his face to the ground!”
“Mary, dear Mother of mine, come fast!” – On his deathbed
“You [O Mary] answered with the “fiat” to the announcement of the angel, do not want our ruin; show love and pity.”
“My life is a continuous delight; what I experience inside these sacred walls is almost inexpressible; the 24 hours of the day seem to me like 24 short instants; really my life is full of delight”
“Our perfection does not consist of doing extraordinary things but to do the ordinary well”
“My sole merit lies in Your wounds”
“Father, tell me if in my heart there is something that does not please God, because it I want to rip it out” – to his spiritual director Fr. Norbert
“. . . fidelity in little things must be the basic rule in striving for holiness,”
“Do not bestow your love on the world”
St Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows 