Listening to Saint Michael...

The finest works, the greatest virtues without obedience can only bring a great destruction. Obedience is the queen of virtues, the nurse, and the keeper of the other virtues.

Without her, in the highest positions, we are in distress; but with a disposition of lowliness and nothingness, we have a limitless trust in God with a taste sweeter than honey.

Those who cannot grasp the paradoxical nature of this spirituality do not have a solid foundation and are simply not religious.

Notebook Cachica, 41