Jesus speaks of the virtue of the cross.
(1) This morning my adorable Jesus made Himself seen crucified, and after having communicated to me His sorrows He said to me:
"Many are the wounds that made me suffer in my passion, but one was the cross; this means that many are the ways by which I draw souls to perfection, but one is the Heaven in which these souls must unite, so wrong that Heaven, there is no other that can render them blessed forever."
(2) Then he added: "Look a little, one is the cross, but this cross was formed from several logs; this means that one is Heaven, but several are the places that this Heaven contains, more or less glorious, and according to the measure of the sufferings suffered here below, more or less heavy, these places will be distributed.
Oh, if everyone knew the preciousness of suffering, they would compete to see who would suffer more, but this science is not known to the world, so they hate everything that can make them richer in eternity".
Book of Heaven -Vol II, Luisa Piccarreta