"O Jesus, that happily I may be that holocaust consume Thy little victim in the fire of Divine Love."
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. VIII
Ah! since that day love penetrates me
and surrounds me; this Merciful Love
each moment renews and purifies me,
leaving in my heart no trace of sin. No,
I cannot fear Purgatory; I know that I
do not merit even to enter with the Holy
Souls into that place of expiation, but
I know too that the fire of Love is more
sanctifying than the fire of Purgatory, I
know that Jesus cannot will needless
suffering for us, and that He would not
inspire me with the desires I feel if He
were unwilling to fulfil them.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. VIII
To offer oneself as a Victim to Divine
Love is not to offer oneself to sweetness—to
consolation; but to every anguish,
every bitterness, for Love lives only by
sacrifice; and the more a soul wills to be
