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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.

When I accepted the fact that I might spend my life suffering from these troubles and anxieties-which in no way diminished the trust I had in God and served only to increase my faith-I found myself changed all at once. And my soul, until that time always in turmoil, experienced a deep inner peace as if it had found its center and place of rest.

Be indifferent in all things; and let it be the same to you to do one thing as to do another, to have one office as to have another.

Oh, would that I could tell everyone what sources of strength, of peace and also of happiness they would find if they consented to live in this intimate union with Him. Only they do not know how to wait. If God does not bestow Himself in a manner they can feel, they leave His holy presence and when He comes to them, laden with graces, He finds nobody there. The soul has gone away into exterior things; it no longer dwells in its center. Recollect yourself from time to time.