Another time: "You have had a great many trials today."
"Yes, but . . . seeing that I love them!. . . I love everything the good God sends me."
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. XII
Again, when some one said to her:
"It is dreadful—all you are suffering."
"No, it is not dreadful; could a little Victim of Love find anything dreadful that her Spouse sends her? He gives me at each moment what I can bear; not more; and the minute He increases my sufferings He also augments my fortitude.
"Yet I could never ask for greater sufferings, for I am too little; they would be my own—my own choosing, then I should have to bear them by myself, and I have never been able to do anything all alone."
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. XII
During her long and painful agony
she exclaimed: "The chalice is full to
