It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.

All for the Eucharist; nothing for me

I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God.

The cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it.

Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers 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.

Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.