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Forget your self-interests for theirs, however much they rebel: when opportunity occurs take some burden upon yourself to ease your neighbor of it.

When God finds a soul penetrated by an intense faith He pours out His grace in abundance.

My life is a life of faith, but my joy is the will of my Jesus.

You are not the only one to make mistakes day after day -- we all do it. But the Lord is patient and full of mercy. In his household of grace he can use our faults, too, if we lay them on the altar for him.

Souls have much the same struggles to fight.

The Eucharist is truly the sacrament of union and at the same time it is the clearest and most convincing proof that God calls us and pleads with us to come to intimate union with Himself.

One attains possession of a knowledge of the cross only when one experiences the cross to the very depths.

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.

If you have to suffer, it means that you are all the more loved.

Is there anything good, beautiful or true that we can think of that would not be in Jesus?

God refuses only the person who does not admit his own weakness; He sends away only the unhappy proud person. You must "hold him" well and strongly, with a poor spirit, with a poor heart, with a life entirely poor...The life of a soul who seeks true happiness clearly and indisputably depends on this: that those who seek their joy in God are the ones who give joy to God.

A soul united to Jesus and identified with him can do everything. It seems to me that this can be reached only by prayer.