LETTER TO HER COUSIN JEANNE GUÉRIN
HOW can a heart given up to human affection be united intimately to God? That, I feel is not possible. I have seen so many souls deluded by this treacherous light, dart into it like the poor moth and burn their wings, then return wounded to Jesus, the Divine Fire which burns without consuming.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. IV
IN giving oneself to God the heart does not lose its natural tenderness; on the contrary, its love grows deeper by becoming more pure and more Christ-like.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. IX
THERE are souls for whom God's mercy wearies not of waiting, and to whom He gives His light only by degrees.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. X
WHEN in the morning we feel no courage, no energy for the practice of virtue, this is a grace, this is the moment to "lay the axe to the root of the tree," [4] depending solely on Jesus. If we fall all is retrieved by an act of love, and Jesus smiles. He helps us without appearing to do so, and the tears which the wicked cause Him to shed are dried by our poor feeble love.
II LETTER TO HER SISTER CÉLINE
[4] Matt., iii, 10.