meat?"[1] and St. Peter confesses his helplessness: "Lord we have laboured all night and have taken nothing."[2] It is enough! The Heart of Jesus is touched. . . . Perhaps if the Apostle had taken a few little fishes the Divine Master would not have worked a miracle; but he had nothing, and so through God's power and goodness his nets were soon filled with great fishes.
That is just our Lord's way. He gives as God, but He will have humility of heart.
XVII LETTER TO HER SISTER CÉLINE
To think ourselves imperfect, and
others perfect—that is happiness. That
creatures should recognize we are without
virtue takes nothing from us, makes
us no poorer; it is they who by this lose
interior joy; for there is nothing sweeter
than to think well of our neighbour.
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
It is a great joy to me, not only when
others find me imperfect, but above all
