A NOVICE expressed regret for having lent a pin which was very serviceable to her:
"Oh! how rich you are," replied Thérèse, "you cannot be happy."
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
"MAKE haste and come down: for this day I must abide in thy house." [1] Jesus tells us to come down; where, then, must we go? . . . At an earlier time the Jews asked Him: "Master, where dwellest Thou." [2] And He said: "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay His head." [3] Behold whereunto we must descend if we would serve as dwellings for Jesus: we must be so poor that we have not where to lay our head.
XIII LETTER TO HER SISTER CÉLINE
[1] Luke, xix, 5
[2] John, i, 38.
[3] Luke, ix, 58.
[CONFIDENCE]
WHAT offends Jesus, what wounds Him to the Heart, is want of confidence.
I LETTER TO HER COUSIN MARIE GUERIN