Give particular attention to the practice of gentleness, study every pulsation of your heart, and if it be not gentle, make it so before all things.
140.
I desire that upon all occasions during the day you should interiorly recollect yourself in God, addressing Him a few words of fidelity and love.
141.
Believe me, God loves souls shaken by storms, provided they receive all from his hands and valiantly strive to remain faithful in the midst of combats.
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One of the best penances and satisfactions which a heart guilty of some fault can offer is to endure a continual cross and abnegation of its self-love.
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It gives me an incomparable pleasure to think of the great honour it is for a soul to speak heart to heart with its God—that great, sovereign infinite Being—yes, for what the heart says to God is known only to God Himself. Is not this a marvellous secret!