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The world's thy ship and not thy home.

Let us struggle without respite. Let us go on, however much we are tired of the struggle. Where would our merit be if we fought only when we feel courageous?

Jesus loves a cheerful heart. He loves persons who are always smiling.

I assure you that God is much better than you believe. He is content with a glance, a sigh of love. As for me, I find perfection very easy to practice because I have understood it as a matter of taking Jesus by His Heart.

I leave to great souls and lofty minds the beautiful books I cannot understand, much less put into practice and I rejoice that I am little because children alone and those who resemble them will be admitted to the heavenly banquet. I am glad that there are many mansions in the Kingdom of God, because if there were only those whose description and whose road seem to me incomprehensible, I could never enter there.

Holiness does not consist in this or that practice; it consists in a disposition of the heart, which makes us always humble and little in the arms of God, well aware of our feebleness, but boldly confident in the Father's goodness.

We must sweeten our minds by charitable thoughts. After that, the practice of patience will become almost natural.

I understand clearly that through love alone can we become pleasing to God, and my sole ambition is to acquire it.

Jesus prefers leaving me in darkness to giving me a false light which would not be Himself.

Jesus has shown me the only way that leads to the fire of divine love: it is that of a little child who, full of trust, falls asleep in its father's arms.

If you are nothing, you must not forget that Jesus is all...think only of this uniquely lovable all.

You must not set yourself up as a judge-that is God's right alone-your only mission is to be an angel of peace.