There I found my sole comfort: Jesus, my only friend. I could talk only to Him. Talking to other people bored me, even when we spoke about religion. I felt it better to speak to God than about Him. There’s often so much self-love involved in chatter about spiritual things!

“But instead of letting me see any ray of hope, God afflicted me with a most gri…”

“But how good God is! How well He fits our trials to our strength!”

“It still stops my having any feeling of pride when people think well of what I …”

“I have said that I learned a lot by teaching others. I discovered that every so…”