Always Keep the spirit of holy prayer and devotion

August 26

Imagination and the devil would like you to believe that God continually offend you always or almost always resist the divine call. The grace of the heavenly Father guard you have very far to fall in such infidelity. Convince yourself that you're told. I guarantee that these feelings do not come but of imagination and the devil. Beware of giving them importance, they do not look at anything but cool in you feelings of affection for the heavenly Bridegroom, to get you to be weary of Christian perfection because the experience as difficult and impossible, and, what is worse, try more directly override and off any feeling of devotion in your heart.

  (August 15, 1914, to Raffaelina Cerase - Ep. II, p. 153)