When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings
Without the burden of afflictions, it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggle increases
In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses
Remember this and never forget it: even if it should seem at times that everything is collapsing, nothing is collapsing at all, because God doesn’t lose battles