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Be not afraid to tell Jesus that you love Him; even though it be without feeling, this is the way to oblige Him to help you, and carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.

Along how many paths, in how many ways, by how many methods You show us love!

As soon as you try to please Him in everything and have an unshakable trust He purifies you every moment in His love and He lets no sin remain.

It is in prayer that the soul learns to know Jesus and thus to love him. Since love cannot be satisfied with difference but with equality, the result is union in similarity.

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

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

If God is in us, and if God is love, it is inevitable that we be brothers; because love of our neighbor is the measure of our love for God.

All passes! In the evening of life, love alone abides ... all must be for love, one must without ceasing, forget oneself ... Oh, if only I had always done so!

I have only to love Him, to let myself be loved, all of the time: to wake in Love, to move in Love, to sleep in Love,my soul in His Soul, my heart in His Heart, so that through contact with Him, He purifies me, and delivers me from my misery.

I cannot be downcast, since in everything that happens to me, I see the loving hand of Jesus.

The soul that has given itself to God must give itself completely, for love leaves nothing for itself.  Let it be consumed entirely so that from these ashes only one person may rise: Christ.  The creature is consumed in the divinity.

A work done without a feeling of pleasure is more pleasing to God than many others done with great delight and feeling. Therefore, when you find yourself in a state of dryness and depression, be glad and exult that God has deigned to give you those greater gifts and sweetest viands that He is wont to offer to those who are dearer to Him and more beloved by Him.