My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me.
The inner life must overcome the flesh or the flesh will overcome and destroy the inner life.
God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.
The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.