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• In performing your tasks, revive your faith and recollect yourself in God with a loving repose.



• When you feel some eagerness, some inner hurry, which is the plague of devotion, as Saint Francis de Sales says, then stop a bit from the work and make three or four acts of love of God until your heart calms down. Then go ahead with your task in a loving way.



• Do not run, or do not walk rapidly, when you are called or take the steps or going to the rooms; when you have an urge to run, stop for a Hail Mary and recollect your spirit, and then go with a tranquil pace, not too furious and not too slow, but calmly and in peace. Acting in this way, after a little while you will have overcome and have found out how gentle is the Lord.



• As regards temptations, make nothing of them, despise them, but be fearful, do not trust yourself nor anyone else, no matter how holy they be. Be modest day and night, and in all your doings which regard yourself guard your eyes and your other senses. Trust God and do not worry, for you will be victorious.



• As for prayer, continue as usual, but do not lose sight of the holy sufferings of Jesus, carry the pains of your Divine Spouse as a bundle of myrrh on the altar of your heart, but in pure faith and without straining your head, and continue to let your soul rest on the bosom of God in a sacred silence of faith and holy love with a loving attention to the Divine Presence as I have told you and written to you many times. Continue as usual and take your prayer with you everywhere.  

~Paul of the Cross to A Religious Sister (Sister’s  15th letter on May 6, 1764 in Vol. 3 on Page 215 for Paul's Letter 1462)

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