Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured out for us in the sacrament of the altar. Offer God His fervent love in reparation for your sluggishness.

All for the Eucharist; nothing for me

We must never be discouraged or give way to anxiety. . . but ever have recourse to the adorable Heart of Jesus.

May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you.

I think He intends to try you like gold in the crucible, so as to number you amongst His most faithful servants. Therefore you must lovingly embrace all occasions of suffering, considering them as precious tokens of His love. To suffer in silence and without complaint is what He asks of you.

Since God wishes it - there is nothing to be done. . . Why should you thus torment yourself? Get rid of whatever He shows you to be an obstacle to His love, for His only desire is that you should live stripped of all that is not Himself.

My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center.