Do not distress yourself on account of any distaste or dryness you experience in God's service. He wills that you should serve Him fervently and constantly it is true, but without any other help than simple faith, and thus your love will be more disinterested, and your service the more pleasing to Him.

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.

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

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

The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering.

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.

But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure.