The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is going on. And so to us the tot….

The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make ot….

To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do ….

There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted b….

What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence..