Here the principal acts in all my spiritual exercises were those of resignation and conformity to the will of God, an entire fidelity to the inspirations and attractions of the Holy Spirit, and a total abandonment of myself to the conduct of Divine Providence.

God seemed always engaged in my soul by means of His grace in repressing my own activity.

The end of my proper activity, I said to myself, is its destruction.

God commands a total and entire abandonment of the soul to Him in order that He may with his grace destroy and annihilate all that He finds in it against His designs and will.

God at times seemed to demand of me a frightful and heroic abandonment of my soul to His good pleasure.