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The soul which does not attain to the degree of purity corresponding with the light and vocation it has received from God can never be wholly content and at peace.

When you speak with a Lord so great, you should think of Who it is you are addressing and what you yourself are, if only that you may speak to Him with proper respect. How can you address a king with the reverence he deserves unless you are clearly conscious of his position and yours?

How sweet is the way of love. True, one can fall or commit infidelities, but, knowing how to draw profit from everything, love quickly consumes everything that can be displeasing to Jesus; it leaves nothing but a humble and profound peace in the depths of the heart.

O my God, the more gently you touch, the more you are hidden in the purified souls of those who have made themselves aliens on earth, and whom you hide in the secret of your face.

In heaven we will be surprised to see how different His judgment is from what we can understand here below. May He be praised forever.

May nothing make you waver. Look at Him. He's awaiting you and is filled with infinite love and will make you His bride. He wants to forge with you the most intimate union. He will make you divine, by joining Himself to you. You will live in Jesus amid infinite sweetness, purity, holiness, goodness, amid the love of One who is God.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus to have acquired experience.

I have never heard Him speak, but I know that He is within me.

In times of aridity when I am incapable of praying, of practicing virtue, I seek little opportunities, mere trifles, to give  pleasure to Jesus; for instance a smile, a pleasant word when inclined to be silent and to show weariness. If I find no opportunities, I at least tell Him again and again that I love Him; that is not difficult and it keeps alive the fire in my heart.

How happy I am to see myself imperfect and be in need of God's mercy.

What God seeks, He being Himself God by nature, is to make us gods through participation, just as fire converts all things into fire.

Let yourself be seen by all as you really are. Just as we are in the sight of God, so let us be in the sight of all.