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My sole occupation is love.
Let all find COMPASSION in YOU.
Who teaches the soul if not God?
Silence is God's first language.
Faith is the union of God and the soul.
God leads every soul by a separate path.
God is a dark night to man in this life.
Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light
To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.
They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.
Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.