[68] Wisdom, iv, 1.
[69] St. John of the Cross.
[70] Job, xiii, 15.
[71] Cf. Ps., cxliii, 1, 2, 3.
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.[72]
HIST. D’UNE AME, CH. IV