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Our Lord to Teresa: "In this way you will see the reward that comes from suffering, for since you did not have the health to speak with Me, I have spoken with you and favored you."

I believe that it is Jesus Himself, hidden at the bottom of my poor, little heart, who acts in me in some mysterious way and tells me everything He wishes me to do at the present moment.

You do much more by saying one word of the Our Father from time to time than by rushing through the entire prayer many times.  You are very close to the One you petition; He will not fail to hear you.  And believe that herein lies the true praise and hollowing of His name.

By love and not by fear, does a soul avoid committing the least voluntary fault.

Run a thousand miles from such expressions as :"I was right." "They had no reason for doing this to me." "The one who did this to me was wrong." God deliver us from this poor way of reasoning. Does it seem to have been right that our good Jesus suffered so many insults and was made to undergo such injustice?

It seems to me I have found my heaven on earth, since heaven is God and God is in my soul. The day I understood that, everything became clear to me, and I wish I could whisper this secret to those I love in order that they also might cling closely to God through everything.

A soul that is hard because of self-love grows harder. O good Jesus, if you do not soften it, it will ever continue in its natural hardness.

We do not know how to make the slightest sacrifice for our God, despite the fact that from eternity He has refused us nothing.

During these painful times when you feel a terrible void, think how He is enlarging the capacity of your soul so that it can receive Him, making it, as it were, infinite just as He is infinite. So, as far as your will is concerned, try to remain perfectly joyous beneath the hand that is crucifying you ... look upon each pain as a token of love coming to you directly from God, in order that He may unite you to Him.

It is a great school of humility to have to do continually things that cause great fatigue and that turn out very imperfect.

I have within me the prayer of Jesus Christ, the Divine Adorer.  It takes me to souls and to the Father.

May Jesus burn more and more in our hearts so that we can enkindle the whole world with His love.