All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

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

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.

One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.