God is even kinder than you think.

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

God prefers your health, and your obedience, to your penance.

I often thought my constitution would never endure the work I had to do, (but) the Lord said to me: 'Daughter, obedience gives strength.'

Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.