The only means of making rapid progress in the path of Love is to remain always very little; that is what I have done; so now I can sing with our Father St. John of the Cross:
And stooping so low, so low,
I rose still higher and higher
And thus I attained my end.
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
Someone was speaking to her of the mortifications of the Saints, she replied:
“It is well our Lord has let us know that there are many mansions in His Father’s House, that if not He would have told us.[83] Yes, if all souls called to perfection had been obliged to practise these macerations in order to enter Heaven, He would have said so, and gladly would we have undertaken them. But He tells us that in His House there are many mansions. If there are those for great souls, for the Fathers of the Desert and for martyrs of penance, there must be one also for little children. Our place is reserved there, if our love be great—for Him and for our Heavenly Father and the Spirit of Love.”
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
“I feel that my mission is now to begin,” she said a few days before her death, “my mission to make others love the good God as I love Him, to give my little way to souls....”
“What is this ‘little way’ that you want to teach to souls?”