'If we allow our worthlessness and our infidelities to paralyze
and set limits to our trust,
we have failed to understand thoroughly
the love and goodness of God,
and we know not the life of self-abandonment.
This life of self-abandonment is for all souls
who are wistful for self-forgetfulness,
who give themselves without reservation,
or who, at least, desire to make this gift.
It is for all souls whose happiness it is
to substitute Jesus for their own ego;
to disappear, to die,
that they may live and grow in Him.'
(from Fervorinos from the Lips of the Master, compiled by a Religious, Pelligrini, Australia, 1940, pp. 178-179)