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Keep yourself from setting your thoughts upon what happens in the community, and still more from speaking of it except to the proper person at the proper time...For if you want to ponder on all that happens you would always discover something amiss even if you lived among angels.

Now, then, to enjoy a part in His kingdom and want no part in His dishonors and trials is nonsense.

I only think that the soul comes out of the crucible like gold, more refined and purified, so as to see the Lord within itself. So afterward these trials that seemed unbearable become small.

For You, O divine life, never kill unless to give life, never wound unless to heal.

Let us begin: perhaps He is only waiting for a single generous resolution from us.

Nothing is accomplished without effort, wihtout struggle. In our better moments, we no longer shed tears over our own weaknesses or over those of others, but we recall what was interiorly said to St. Paul: My grace is sufficient for you; in union with me you can do all things.

...some books on prayer tell us where one must seek God. Within oneself, very clearly, is the best place to look.

We have to learn to see others carry the cross and not be able to remove it from them. It is more difficult than to carry our own, but we cannot avoid it.

"Do you know the souls that most enjoy my Goodness?," said our Lord (to a chosen soul). "The ones who trust in me the most. Trusting souls are the ones who steal away my graces. I am all Love, and the greatest pain one can give my Heart is to doubt my Goodness."

We ought not to get tired of doing little things for the love of God, because He looks at the love rather than at the work.

O my God, fill my soul with holy joy, courage and strength to serve You. Enkindle Your love in me and then walk with me along the next stretch of road before me. I do not see very far ahead, but when I have arrived where the horizon now closes down, a new prospect will prospect will open before me, and I shall meet it with peace.

I have not known anyone truly devoted to him (St. Joseph) and rendering him special services who has not advanced more in virtue. For in a powerful way he benefits souls who recommend themselves to him.