Do Not Desire Crosses, Unless You Have

Work Hard Every Day At Increasing Your Purity Of Heart, Which Consists In Appraising Things And Weighing Them In The Balance Of God's Will.

Oh What Remorse We Shall Feel At The End Of Our Lives, When We Look Back Upon The Great Number Of Instructions And Examples Afforded By God And The Saints For Our Perfection, And So Carelessly Received By Us! If This End Were To Come To You Today, How Would You Be Pleased With The Life You Have Led This Year?

Make Sickness Itself A Prayer.

Be Patient With Everyone, But Above All With Yourself. I Mean, Do Not Be Disturbed Because Of Your Imperfections, And Always Rise Up Bravely From A Fall. I Am Glad That You Make A Daily New Beginning; There Is No Better Means Of Progress In The Spiritual Life Than To Be Continually Beginning Afresh, And Never To Think That We Have Done Enough.

One Great Remedy Against All Manner Of Temptation, Great Or Small, Is To Open The Heart And Lay Bare Its Suggestion, Likings, And Dislikings Before Some Spiritual Adviser; For, . . . The First Condition Which The Evil One Makes With A Soul, When He Wants To Entrap It, Is Silence.