[78] Apoc., x, 6.
SIMPLICITY
When I read certain treatises where perfection is set forth as encompassed by a thousand obstacles, my poor little head grows weary very quickly. I close the learned book which puzzles my brains and dries up my heart, and in its stead I open the Holy Scriptures. Then all appears clear, luminous ... one single word discloses to my soul infinite horizons, perfection seems easy. I see that it is sufficient to recognize our nothingness, and to leave oneself like a child, in the arms of the good God. Let great souls and sublime intellects enjoy the beautiful books which I cannot understand, still less put in practice; I rejoice in being little, since “children only and those who resemble them will be admitted to the Heavenly banquet.”[79]
It is well that the Kingdom of Heaven contains many mansions, for if there were none other than those of which the description and the way seem incomprehensible to me, I should never be able to enter therein.
VI LETTER TO HER MISSIONARY “BROTHERS”
My patrons in Heaven and my chosen favourites are those who have stolen it—like the Holy Innocents and the Good Thief. The great Saints have earned it by their works; as for me, I will imitate the thieves, I will have it by ruse, a ruse of Love which will open its gates to me and to poor sinners. The Holy Ghost encourages me, saying in the Book of Proverbs: “O little one, come, learn subtlety of me.”[80]
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
Our Lord replied to the mother of the sons of Zebedee: “To sit on My right and on My left hand is for them for whom it is prepared by My Father.”[81] I imagine that those places of choice, refused to great Saints, to Martyrs, will be the portion of little children.
Did not David predict it when he said that the little Benjamin will preside amidst the assemblies (of the saints)?[82]