"How it grieves us to see you suffer, and to think you may perhaps have still more to endure," the novices were saying to her.
"Oh! do not be troubled about me, I have arrived at the stage of being no longer able to suffer, because all suffering is sweet to me."
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. XII
A sister, who doubted her patience,
noticed, when visiting her one day, an
expression of heavenly joy on her countenance
and wished to know the reason.
"It is because of the very acute pain I
am feeling," replied Thérèse, "I have
always striven to love suffering and to
give it a cordial welcome."
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. XII
"Why are you so gay this morning?"
she was asked; "It is because I have
had two little trials, nothing gives me
little joys like little trials."
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. XII
