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In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

To be a child of God, that means to be led by the hand of God, to do the will of God, not one's own will, to place every care and every hope in the hand of God and not to worry about oneself or one's future. On this rests the joy of the child of God.

Remember that our sweet Jesus is there in the Tabernacle expressly for you and you alone. Remember that He burns with the desire to enter your heart. Do not listen to the enemy. Laugh him to scorn, and go without fear to receive Jesus, the God of peace and of love...

What does it matter if we pray for great things? We are asking it of One Who is all powerful.

Other penitential practices and other mortifications are useful only in so far as they promote union with God through Love.

On earth, the soul can have no other heaven than the will of God.

The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions...when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.

If we live and move in God, it does not seem to me that His company and His love can hinder us from moving and working externally.

We must sweeten our minds by charitable thoughts. After that, the practice of patience will become almost natural.

As the tilling of soil is necessary for it's fruitfulness- untilled soil produces only weeds-mortification of the appetites is a requisite for man's spiritual fruitfulness.

When one is in the midst of business matters, and in times of persecutions and trials, when one can't maintain so much quietude, and in times of dryness, Christ is a very good friend...He is company for us. Once we have the habit, it is very easy to find Him present at our side.

We must serve our Lord; sow what is good around us without worrying about its growth. For us the labors; for Jesus, success!