It's true, I suffer a great deal-but do I suffer well? That is the question.

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.

The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.

God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.

He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this agony from us. He needs it for souls and for our soul... Alas, it does pain Him to give us sorrows to drink, but He knows this is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself and to become God's ourselves.

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.