Let us remember that the Heart of Jesus has called us not only for our own sanctification, but also for that of other souls. He wants to be helped in the salvation of souls.

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

Our Lord sends the crosses; we do not have to invent them.

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.

Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects, but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.

Jesus wants to make us holy at all costs. . .He offers you continual proof of this.

Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.