COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
The good God does not need years to accomplish His work of love in a soul; one ray from His Heart can, in an instant, make His flower bloom for eternity....
VI LETTER TO HER SISTER CÉLINE
Love can supply for length of years. Jesus, because He is Eternal, regards not the time but only the love.
V LETTER TO MÈRE AGNÈS DE JÉSUS
I desire no sensible consolation in loving; provided Jesus feel my love that is enough for me. Oh! to love Him and to make Him loved ... how sweet it is....
V LETTER TO MÈRE AGNÈS DE JÉSUS
O Jesus, I ask of Thee only Peace!... Peace, and above all Love—love without bound or limit. Jesus, let me for Thy sake die a martyr; give me martyrdom of soul or body. Ah! rather give me both the one and the other!
HIST. D’UNE AME, CH. VIII
I have no longer any desire unless it be to love Jesus even to folly! Yes, Love it is that draws me. I can say these words of the canticle of our Father, St. John of the Cross: