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HOPE

Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer. . . .

VIII LETTER TO HER SISTER CÉLINE


A day . . . an hour . . . and we shall have reached the port! My God, what shall we see then? What is that life which will never have an end?. . . Jesus will be the soul of our soul. Unfathomable mystery! "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man what great things God hath prepared for them that love Him."[1] And

  1. ↑ I Cor., ii, 9. Cf. Is., lxiv, 4.
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