'What most checks the flow of His grace in us is that
scarcely have we come to the feet of the Divine Master when we at once
begin to display our sins and miseries, that is, we tire our mind and
sadden our heart with the thought of them. Now, to escape from this
state we must suffer. Let your first aspiration be then, O my loving
Jesus, how happy I am to come to Thee and to be able to spend this hour
in Thy divine Presence ! How good Thou art to have willed to call me, to
deign to love a poor creature like me! Oh, I will, as far as I am able,
love Thee with reciprocal love! Then love opens the Heart of Jesus to
you.'
