Anxious?
If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient; but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
On Charity
True charity consists in bearing all our neighbour’s defects – not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
On the Eucharist
Do you realise that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you – for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart… Don’t listen to the demon; laugh at him, and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace and love.
The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us – that is all He asks.
On Happiness
True happiness on earth consists in being forgotten and in remaining completely ignorant of created things. I understood that all we accomplish, however brilliant, is worth nothing without love.
I learned from experience that joy does not reside in the things about us, but in the very depths of the soul, that one can have it in the gloom of a dungeon as well as in the palace of a king.
On Heaven
The world is thy ship and not thy home.
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