We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.

Be happy when you are blamed and accused wrongly, for then you have the chance to see all the bitter, hostile or self-pitying responses that your sinful soul wants to spew out - as if these puny things could in any way defend you! Watch and see if any of these poisons come out of you when your spirit is pricked by an accusation. Only then can you see yourself as you are, and confess thy sin that is within you and forsake yourself again into the Lord's care.

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.