Monday, 25 March 2019

462 Now I understand well that what unites our soul most closely to God is self-denial;

that is, joining our will to the will of God. This is what makes the soul truly free, contributes to profound recollection of the spirit, and makes all life's burdens light, and death sweet. 

Saturday, 23 February 2019

210 I fervently beg the Lord to strengthen my faith,

so that in my drab, everyday life I will not be guided by human dispositions, but by those of the spirit. Oh, how everything drags man towards the earth! But lively faith maintains the soul in the higher regions and assigns self-love its proper place; that is to say, the lowest one.