Love turns work into rest.

"It is love alone that gives worth to all things."

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
"God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so
as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person."
"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."
"We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His
greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon
His humility we find how very far we are from being humble."
"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."
"The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."
"Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and
desires it finds. "
"The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it
must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects [are] those that are followed up by
actions-----when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it. "
"I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me."
"Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of
Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call
prayer-----however much the lips may move."
"Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means
taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us."
"You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him."
'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. "
"Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage.
Think of how our gain is eternal."

"Pain is never permanent."

"Truth suffers, but never dies."
"I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us."
"Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal
things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss."
"We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill
God's will in us."
"Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one
life, which is short and has to be lived by you alone; and there is only one Glory, which is eternal. If
you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing. "

May today there be peace within.

May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has
been given to you.
May you be content knowing you are a child of God.
Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to
sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of us.
It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.
Thank God for the things that I do not own.
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
Love turns work into rest.
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
This Beloved of ours is merciful and good. Besides, he so deeply longs for our love that he
keeps calling us to come closer. This voice of his is so sweet that the poor soul falls apart in the
face of her own inability to instantly do whatever he asks of her. And so you can see, hearing
him hurts much more than not being able to hear him For now, his voice reaches us through
words spoken by good people, through listening to spiritual talks, and reading sacred literature.
God calls to us in countless little ways all the time. Through illnesses and suffering and through
sorrow he calls to us. Through a truth glimpsed fleetingly in a state of prayer he calls to us. No

matter how halfhearted such insights may be, God rejoices whenever we learn what he is trying
to teach us.
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you
to love.
The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands
to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform
impossibilities.
For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself,
the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great
distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened
by our own thoughts.
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the
soul.
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one
night in an inconvenient hotel.
God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.
I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying
I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were
full of feeling and admirably descriptive of her pain: they did not come from her
understanding, but, in order the better to enjoy the bliss which came to her from such
delectable pain, she complained of it to her God. She would have been so glad if she could have
been cut to pieces, body and soul, to show what joy this pain caused her. What torments could
have been set before her at such a time which she would not have found it delectable to endure
for her Lord's sake?
In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to
nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in it
enters in diffrent places but it all becomes one.
I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, or such a kind that I
could not possibly doubt that He was within me or that I was wholly engulfed in Him. This was
in no sense a vision: I believe it is called mystical theology. The soul is suspended in such a way
that it seems to be completely outside itself. The will loves; the memory, I think, is almost lost;
while the understanding, I believe, thought it is not lost, does not reasonI mean that it does
not work, but is amazed at the extent of all it can understand; for God wills it to realize that it
understands nothing of what His Majesty represents to it.
All the way to heaven is heaven.

. . . it is presumptuous in me to wish to choose my path, because I cannot tell which path is

best for me. I must leave it to the Lord, Who knows me, to lead me by the path which is best for
me, so that in all things His will may be done.
. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you
strive after the virtues and practice them, you will never grow to be more than dwarfs.
O infinite goodness of my God! It is thus that I seem to see both myself and Thee. O Joy of the
angels, how I long, when I think of this, to be wholly consumed in love for Thee! How true it is
that Thou dost bear with those who cannot bear Thee to be with them! Oh, how good a Friend
art Thou, my Lord! How Thou dost comfort us and suffer us and wait until our nature becomes
more like Thine and meanwhile dost bear with it as it is! Thou dost remember the times when
we love Thee, my Lord, and, when for a moment we repent, Thou dost forget how we offended
Thee. I have seen this clearly in my own life, and I cannot conceive, my Creator, why the whole
world does not strive to draw near to Thee in this intimate friendship. Those of us who are
wicked, and whose nature is not like Thine, ought to draw near to Thee so that Thou mayest
make them good. They should allow Thee to be with them for at least two hours each day, even
though they may not be with Thee, but are perplexed, as I was, with a thousand worldly cares
and thoughts. In exchange for the effort which it costs them to desire to be in such good
company (for Thou knowest, Lord, that at first this is as much as they can do and sometimes
they can do no more at all) Thou dost prevent the devils from assaulting them so that each day
they are able to do them less harm, and Thou givest them strength to conquer. Yea, Life of all
lives, Thou slayest none of those that put their trust in Thee and desire Thee for their Friend;
rather dost Thou sustain their bodily life with greater health and give strength to their souls.