Ah, how true it is that we love ourselves too much and proceed with too much human prudence, that we may not lose an atom of our consideration! Oh, what a great mistake that is! The Saints did not act thus.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

God, deliver me from sullen saints.

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires.

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