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Let us be generous, let us serve the Lord nobly, let us practise great virtues; God will be our strength and will give us victory.

Love speaks little. The language of divine love is a burning heart; no words can express its ardors; they make of the loving soul a victim of love, a holocaust, consumed and reduced to ashes in the divine fire of charity.

Be faithful to correspond with the wonderful graces which you have received from Our Lord; they are a preparation for greater graces and more sublime lights, which will cause you to love God more, to acquire more solid virtue, and to practice it in a more heroic degree.

If God grants you the gift of prayer, be faithful to it; take care, however, that you do not become slothful in the practice of virtues and the imitation of Jesus.

Oh, how I wish that everybody would apply himself to meditation and prayer! What a misfortune that there are so few souls who know the hidden treasure contained in prayer and union with God!

I would like the subject of your prayer to be the Passion of Jesus; let your heart lose itself in God in those loving communions. But understand me well. I wish you to leave your soul entirely free to follow the attractions of the Holy Spirit.

Oh, what joy will it give to the blessed in heaven, and what pleasure to your guardian angel, to see you engaged in mental prayer! Never omit this holy exercise.

Your most important business is the care of your soul. This is why, before leaving your room in the morning, you should spend at least a quarter of an hour in meditating on the life, the Passion, and the death of Our Lord Jesus Christ.