Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
(p. 14)
We should dedicate ourselves to becoming in this life the most
perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be
through all eternity.
(p. 22)
Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and
particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end.
(p. 17)
To approach God requires neither art nor science, but only a heart
resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for
His sake, and to love Him only.
(pp. 17-18)
Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms
of devotion, but act with a general confidence in God, with love
and humility.
(p. 48)
God loves us infinitely, more than we can imagine.
Love Him, then, and seek no consolation elsewhere.
(p. 59)
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