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Thus you must undertake all things, agreeable or disagreeable, for the sole purpose of pleasing God through them.

Let us make prayer precede our every action. Who is so wise as to be able to decide without counsel? And what counsel is more perfect than that of the Holy Spirit Who communicates Himself to us when we pray?

If the Lord put up with someone as miserable as myself for so long a time...who, no matter how bad they may be, has reason to fear? For no matter how bad they may be, they will not be bad for as many years as I was after having received so many favors from the Lord. Who can lose confidence?

Rather than continually dwelling on her misery and worthlessness, she merely let all thought of self fall away before the infinite majesty of God; and truly the most profitable and genuine way of despising self is to forget oneself altogether.

from God is Love

A science of the cross can be gained only when one comes to feel the cross radically.

The soul ought to consider aridity and darkness as fortunate omens; as signs that God is beside it, freeing it from itself, taking the initiative out of its hand.

If individuals resolutely submit to carrying the cross, if they decidedly want to find and endure trial in all things for God, they will discover in all of them great relief and sweetness.

It is a great help to seek Him within, where He is found more easily and in a way more beneficial to us than when sought in creatures, as St. Augustine says, after having looked for Him in many places.

I understood the great blessing there is in not paying attention to what doesn't bring us closer to God.

The angels who assist Him know well the attitude of their King, for He delights more in the unpolished manners of a humble shepherd who He realizes would say more if he knew more than He does in the talk of very wise and learned men, however elegant their discourse, if they don't walk in humility.

You know that our Lord does not look at the greatness or difficulty of our action, but at the love with which you do it. What, then, have you to fear?

It is in that soul in which less of its own appetites and pleasures dwell that He dwells more alone, more pleased, and more as though in His own house, ruling and governing it.