A SISTER said to her:
"If anyone goes straight to Heaven, you surely will not spend one moment in Purgatory!"
"Oh! I feel little anxiety about that; I shall always be content with the sentence of the good God. If I go to Purgatory, well—I shall walk in the midst of the flames, like the three Hebrews in the furnace, singing the Canticle of Love."
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
[GRATITUDE]
OH, how happy God makes me! How easy and how sweet it is to serve Him upon earth.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. X
SEEING several of my companions form special attachments to some one or other of our mistresses, I wished to follow their example but could not succeed therein. O happy inability! from how great evils has it saved me . . . How I thank God for having made me find only bitterness in the friendships of earth. With a heart such as mine I should have been captured and had my wings clipped; then how should I have been able to fly away and be at rest. [1]
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. IV