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It has not entered into the heart of man what God is like.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

For Christ desire to enter into complete nakedness, emptiness and poverty in everything.

It is a serious evil to have more regard for God's blessings than for God Himself: prayer and detachment.

Even though your obligations and duties are difficult and disagreeable to you, you should not become dismayed, for this will not always be so. And God, Who proves the soul by a precept under the guise of a trial, will after a time accord it the experience of its own blessing and gain.

It should be known that the Word, the Son of God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit, is hidden by his essence and his presence in the innermost being of the soul. Individuals who want to find him should leave all things through affection and will, enter within themselves in deepest recollection, and let all things be as not.

Look not at the imperfections of others, keep silence and have continual converse with God. These three things will uproot great imperfections from the soul and make it mistress of great virtues.

It is the nature of perfect love to seek or accept nothing for itself, to attribute nothing to itself, but to refer all to the Beloved. If this be true of earthly love, how much more so of the love of God...

See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

As the tilling of soil is necessary for it's fruitfulness- untilled soil produces only weeds-mortification of the appetites is a requisite for man's spiritual fruitfulness.

Faith is comparable to the feet by which one journeys to God, and love is like one's guide.