How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?

God is very generous and does not deny His grace to anyone. Indeed he gives more than what we ask of Him. Faithfulness to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit-that is the shortest route.

I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.

Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.

My likeness to Jesus must be through suffering and humility.

To give worthy praise to the Lord's mercy, we unite ourselves with Your Immaculate Mother, for then our hymn will be more pleasing to You, because She is chosen from among men and angels. Through Her, as through a pure crystal, Your mercy was passed on to us. Through Her, man became pleasing to God; Through Her, streams of grace flowed down upon us.

The greatest misery does not stop Me from uniting Myself to a soul, but where there is pride, I am not there.