You tell me that it is hard to will to do, and to be unable to do. I do not say to you that we must will what we can do, but that before God it is a great deal to be able to will.
255.
What would you do, if you were never to be delivered from your trials? You would say to God: “I am thine; if my miseries are pleasing to Thee multiply them, prolong them.” Make friends with your trials, as if you were always to live together, and you will find that when you no longer think of them and cease to be anxious, God will deliver you from them.
256.
No, my dear daughter, I am not troubled as long as our resolutions remain steadfast. Though we were to die, though everything were to be overturned, what would it matter provided they continued firm?
257.
Our night is as brilliant as our day, when God is in our hearts, and our day is night when God is absent from us.
258.
A spirit of indifference helps us in all things, even to making us content during seven weeks, when a father, and a father who loves as I do, and a daughter, such as you, receive no news of each other.