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I know quite well all you are suffering. I know your anguish, and I share it. Oh! if I could but impart to you the peace which Jesus has put into my soul amid my most bitter tears. Be comforted - all passes away.

Those who practice prayer should have a special affection for him (St. Joseph) always. I do not know how anyone can think of the Queen of the Angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Child Jesus, without giving thanks to Saint Joseph for the way he helped them. If anyone cannot find a master to teach him how to pray, let him take this glorious saint as his master and he will not go astray.

Trials help greatly to detach us from earth. They make us look to God, rather than to this world.

All my occupation now is the practice of the love of God.  All I do is done in love.  All I suffer I suffer in the sweetness of love.  This is the meaning of David when he says, 'I will keep my strength to Thee.'

Let us be one with Jesus...let us make our life a continual sacrifice, a martyrdom of love to console Jesus.

The more interior the suffering is and the less apparent to the eyes of creatures, the more it rejoices You, O my God!

God repays trials very well with divine goods for soul and body - there is not a trial which does not have a corresponding and considerable reward.

And it is clear that since God wants to lead those whom He greatly loves by the path of tribulation there is no reason to think that He despises contemplatives, for with His own mouth He praises them and considers them His friends.

Ah, if you got to know Him a little, prayer wouldn't bore you any more; to me it seems to be rest, relaxation. We come quite simply to the One we love, stay close to Him like a little child in the arms of its mother, and we let our heart go....If you only knew how well he understands....You wouldn't suffer any more if you understood that.

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

One cannot attain the end without adopting the means, and as Our Lord made me understand that it was by the Cross He would give me souls, the more crosses I met with the stronger grew my attraction to suffering.

I love You so much, my heart burns with love for You, that I cannot live calm and happy, while You, my Beloved Spouse, suffer.