proofs of tenderness while yet I could do so. . . .
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. V
The love of God reveals itself in the
very simplest soul who resists His grace
in nothing, as well as in the most sublime.
Indeed, the characteristic of love
being to humble itself, if all souls
resembled those of the holy Doctors
who have enlightened the Church, the
good God would not seem to descend
low enough in coming to them. But He
has created the infant who knows nothing
and can only wail; He has created the
poor savage who has but the natural
law for guidance, and it is even unto their
hearts that He deigns to stoop.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. I
In order that Love may be fully satisfied
it must needs stoop to very nothingness
and transform that nothing into fire.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. XI
