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.

We must submit to the Will of God and kiss the hand that strikes us, for we know it is better to suffer in this life than in the next, since one moment of suffering willingly accepted for the love God, is worth an eternity of happiness.

Do nothing through human respect and, when it assails you, say: I shall do neither more nor less for the eyes of creatures. O my God, since I wish to please Thee alone, it suffices that Thou seest me everywhere.

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

O my Saviour, who am I, that Thou shouldst have so long awaited my repentance!

Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified