Notebook II

[John]

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[John]

552 - "[T]he Holy Spirit does not speak to a soul that is distracted and garrulous. He speaks by His quiet inspirations to a soul that is recollected, to a soul that knows how to keep silence."

757 - "[W]e should take great heed of our interior inspirations and follow them faithfully, and [] faithfulness to one grace draws down others."

767 - [T]his life is all darkness and mist and dreamlike confusion. . . ."

789 - "Always and in all circumstances, yield the first place to others. . . ."

792 - "I must never speak of my own experiences." "I must always have a heart which is open to receive the sufferings of others, and drown my own sufferings in the Divine Heart so that they would not be noticed on the outside, in so far as possible."

800 - "If one does not know what is better, one must reflect, consider and seek advice, because one must not act with an uncertain conscience."

804 - "My Jesus, how little these people talk about You. They talk about everything but You, Jesus. And if they talk so little [about You], it is quite probable that they do not think about You at all."

814 - "It would be difficult for me to live through the day if I did not receive Holy Communion."

822 - "He Himself is the Lord of both the work and the worker. My part is to love Him to folly. . . . It is love that has meaning and power and merit."

894 - "My daughter, know that you give Me greater glory by a single act of obedience than by long prayers and mortifications."

944 - "There are moments when I mistrust myself, when I feel my own weakness and wretchedness in the most profound depths of my own being, and I have noticed that I can endure such moments only by trusting in the infinite mercy of God."

994 - "It is no great thing to love God in prosperity
And thank Him when all goes well,
But rather to adore Him midst great adversities
And love Him for His own sake and place one's hope in Him."

997 - "I know in what the greatness of a soul consists and what matters to God: love, love, and once again, love."