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Don’t fear purgatory because of the suffering endured there, but desire to avoid it in order to please the good God, who imposes this purification with such reluctance. Since you seek to please him in everything, if you trust unshakably that he purifies you at every moment in his love and leaves no trace of sin in you, you can be quite sure that you won’t go to purgatory.

She asks your pardon for her unbelieving brethren, and is willing to eat the bread of sorrow as long as You may wish. For love of You she will sit at that table of bitterness where these poor sinners take their food, and she will not stir from it until You give the sign.

He that seeks here any other thing than purely God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.

We who run in the way of love shouldn't be thinking of sufferings that can take place in the future: it's a lack of confidence, it's like meddling in the work of creation.

God gives me courage in proportion to my sufferings. I feel at this moment I couldn’t suffer any more, but I’m not afraid since if they increase, He will increase my courage at the same time.

Do not imagine that love can be found without suffering, for we carry with us our human nature; and yet, what a source of merit it is!

If I did not suffer from moment to moment, I would not be able to keep patience, but I see only the present moment; I forget the past and take care not to peer into the future.

Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant and delightful; strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking itself: for where a man seeks himself, there he falls from love.

Suffering makes us good; it makes us indulgent towards others, because suffering brings us nearer to the good Lord.

Take heart, Jesus hears even the last echo of our pain.

The end cannot be reached without adopting the means, and since Our Lord had made me understand that it was through the cross He would give me souls, the more crosses I encountered the stronger became my attraction to suffering.