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No wonder that they should feel these trials for a time, but I think they ought speedily to overcome their concern about such matters. God, wishing His elect to realize their own misery, often temporarily withdraws His favours: no more is needed to prove to us in a very short time what we really are.

All things come to an end; therefore take heart, for just as one thing gives way to another, so eternity will come at last.

By God, of God, and for God, this is the final goal of every creature.

I keep my eyes fixed on eternity and in this way I obtain constancy in the vortex of city life, freedom in social relations, and a merry heart.

Trust in God can remain unshaken only if it includes being prepared to accept absolutely everything from the hand of the Father.

The more you feel your weakness, your difficulty in being recollected, the more the Master seems to hide Himself, the more you should rejoice, for then you are giving Him something, and is it not more blessed to give than to receive, when one loves?

What sweet joy to think that the Lord is just, that He takes into account our weakness, and knows perfectly the frailty of our nature.

Perseverance is required at first in making a habit of converse with God and of referring all we do to Him, but after a little His love moves us to it without any difficulty.

What have I to do in heaven and on earth except to please my God and give myself up to Him continually?

What does it matter if we pray for great things? We are asking it of One Who is all powerful.

Knowing, O my God, that my sins made Your cross so heavy that You had to sink beneath it, this makes me even more convinced that I must carry my cross together with You and that I should not shy away from it, even should I sink beneath its weight.

No love is possible without the cross...and it is through crosses that love becomes fruitful, om condition that they be borne in a spirit of love, for without this spirit everything is sterile.