“How do you manage so to practise virtue,” asked a novice, “as to be always the same, invariably joyous and composed?”
“It has not been always so,” she replied, “but ever since I have shunned all self-seeking I lead the happiest life that can be.”
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
Now, that I am about to appear before the good God, more than ever do I understand that there is but one thing necessary: to work solely for Him, and to do nothing for self or for creatures.
X LETTER TO HER MISSIONARY “BROTHERS”
FOOTNOTES:
[44] Imit., III, xxiv, 2.
[45] Is., lxv, 15.
[46] Apoc., ii, 17.
[47] Cf. I Cor., iv, 5.