Let my trust be in Your mercy, not in myself.
(p. 33)
(Paraphrased: True spiritual life:)
It is the silence of our whole being in compunction and adoration
before God, in the habitual realization that He is everything
and we are nothing, that He is the Center to which all things tend,
and to Whom all our actions must be directed.
That our life and strength proceed from Him, that both in life
and in death we depend entirely on Him.
(pp. 50-51)
Only pure love can empty the soul perfectly of the images
of created things and elevate you above desire.
(p. 126)
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