Stay with me, Lord, for as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You. . .

Pray with perseverance, with faith, with calmness and serenity.

May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.

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.

In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.

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.

Only in Heaven will everything be as beautiful as spring, as pleasant as autumn, and as full of love as summer.