What interests you most is our present condition: it is what we would have desired, thorny and difficult, but it is made easier by the unction of grace and alleviated by an all-kind Providence whose help is never withdrawn and whose protection is felt at every moment.

Lord, I lean on You alone for strength. Give me your arm to support me, your shoulders to carry me, your breast on which to lay my head, your Cross to uphold me, your Eucharist to nourish me. On you Lord, I shall sleep and rest in peace.

Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.

God alone and the desire of His glory - nothing else matters.

He who has Jesus has everything.

Let us realize that we are sinners and have much to explate, while others less culpable than we are suffer more than we do.

If you have no earthly consolation, why do you not seek consolation in the Heart of Jesus? To love him is truest joy.