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You, my God, have declared yourself my captain; you have raised the standard of the Cross, saying: ‘Take up the cross and follow in my footsteps.’ To correspond with this invitation, I promise to resist your love no longer; rather, I will follow you to Calvary without hesitation.

Our Rule is the Cross, and the three Promises the nails that fasten us to it.

Let us place our trust in God, let us place our trust in God who is so good and wills so much good for us. He will not abandon us, have no doubt about it.

Never complain of anyone, but turn the complaints against yourself; because if you do not succeed in doing what you long to do, how can you complain if others fail?

Our good God ardently desires to give us the great treasure of His love; but He wants us to ask Him for it insistently, and to act in such a way that each work we perform will be a request for this love.

O you who do not dare draw near to Him, make the test and prove how good and generous is our most loving God!

There is such a need to mortify the intellect, the memory, and the exterior senses, so that they become almost spiritual, and then united to the soul they find in God alone their nourishment and their consolation, and they can say: "My heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God."

My God, how well you know my great need of your help. I trust in your infinite mercy, and I shall always do so, regardless of the spiritual state in which I find myself. Always and everywhere I shall endeavor to recognize You will in all things, even though my eyes see only contradiction and uncertainty. I know that I cannot depend upon myself, and so I shall trust completely in You.

We can do this much; endeavor to conform ourselves to Christ Crucified.

My Jesus, I am determined to be all yours, whatever the cost, and despite every repugnance.

In all things I shall be content, knowing that the route I travel leads to Calvary. The thornier the path, the heavier the cross, the more consoled I shall be, because I desire to love you with a suffering love, a selfless love, an active love, with a firm, undivided, persevering love...I have promised you many things, but in no wise do I depend upon my own indolent spirit.

Our good God ardently desires to give us the great treasure of His love; but He wishes that we ask Him for it urgently, and that we act in such a way that everything we do will be a request begging for this love.