After you die, you wear what you are.
Teach by works more than words.
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 sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.
Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
[Last words:] My Lord, it is time to move on. Well then, may your will be done. O my Lord and my Spouse, the hour that I have longed for has come. It is time to meet one another.
God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.
I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
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.
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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