Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.

Joy is a power, and the poor followed Jesus because power dwelled in Him, ‘went forth’ from Him, flowed from His eyes, His hands, His body, totally given, present, to God, to people.