If After All Your Efforts You Cannot

Do Not Wish To Be Anything But What You Are, And Try To Be That Perfectly.

Many Great Persons Have Been Of Opinion That Love Is No Other Thing Than Complacency Itself, In Which They Have Had Much Appearance Of Reason. For Not Only Does The Movement Of Love Take Its Origin From The Complacency Which The Heart Feels At The First Approach Of Good, And Find Its End In A Second Complacency Which Returns To The Heart By Union With The Thing Beloved--but Further, It Depends For Its Preservation On This Complacency, And Can Only Subsist Through It As Through Its Mother And Nurse; So That As Soon As The Complacency Ceases, Love Ceases.

To Live According To The Spirit Is To Love According To The Spirit.

If After All Your Efforts You Cannot Succeed, You Could Not Please Our Lord More Than By Sacrificing To Him Your Will, And Remaining In Tranquility, Humility, And Devotion, Entirely Conformed And Submissive To His Divine Will And Good Pleasure.

The Prayer Of The Sick Person Is His Patience And His Acceptance Of His Sickness For The Love Of Jesus Christ. Make Sickness Itself A Prayer, For There Is None More Powerful, Save Martyrdom!