(said of God):If this is the way you treat your friends, it's no wonder you have so few! |
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only. |
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. |
Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself. |
Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes. |
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don’t remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don’t understand the great secrets hidden inside of us. |
God aids the valiant...both to you and to me He will give the help needed. |
How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee? |
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. |
If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it. |
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. |
It is love alone that gives worth to all things |
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same. |
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which |
Let nothing disturb thee, nothing affright thee; all things are passing; God never changeth. |