Be comforted with this divine thought that your spiritual and physical pains are the test of the Divine Will.

As gifts increase in you, let your humility grow, for you must consider that everything is given to you on loan.

Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God.

Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?

Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice of the royal prophet: "Today, if you hear God's voice, harden not your heart." Let us not put off from one moment to another (what we should do) because the (next moment) is not yet ours.

Why should you worry whether God wants you to reach the heavenly home by way of the desert or by the fields, when by the one as well as by the other one arrives all the same at a Blessed Eternity? Keep far from you excessive preoccupation which arises from the trials which the good God wishes to visit upon you.

The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy books makes me shudder... What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of perfection.