The Life Of The Spirit Is Not

What A Miserable Life Is This! There Is No Happiness That Is Secure And Nothing That Does Not Change.

Let Nothing Disturb You, / Nothing Dismay You; / All Things Are Passing: / God Never Changes.

There Is More Security In Self-denial, Mortification, And Other Like Virtues, Than In An Abundance Of Tears.

Dream That The More You Struggle, The More You Prove The Love That You Bear Your God, And The More You Will Rejoice One Day With Your Beloved, In A Happiness And Rapture That Can Never End.

I Often Thought My Constitution Would Never Endure The Work I Had To Do, (but) The Lord Said To Me: 'daughter, Obedience Gives Strength.'