God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.

How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?

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.