Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it be his life ever so wicked for prayer is the way to amend it and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.
Authentic prayer changes us, unmasks us, strips us, indicates where growth is needed.
We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea because we have heard it and because our faith tells us so that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our...
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints good Lord deliver us.
God prefers your health and your obedience to your penance.
Learn to self-conquest persevere thus for a time and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
Patient endurance attends to all things.
To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
How is it Lord that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?
As to the aridity you are suffering from it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He...
The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.
It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.
However much we do to avoid them we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
With all this wide and beautiful creation before me the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.
Let nothing disturb you nothing frighten you all things are passing God never changes.
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you never speak of them and don't ask about them.
Granting that we are always in the presence of God yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense for they as it were see that He is looking upon them while...
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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