and for Him alone! How joyous then the heart and how buoyant the spirit!. . .
VI LETTER TO MÈRE AGNÈS DE JÉSUS
I have never wished for human glory,
contempt it was, that had attraction for
my heart; but having recognized that
this again was too glorious for me, I
ardently desire to be forgotten.
VII LETTER TO MÈRE AGNÈS DE JÉSUS
If you only knew to what a degree I
wish to be indifferent to the things of
the earth! What matters to me all
created beauty? I should be truly unfortunate
were I to possess it. Oh! how
great, how noble, seems my heart when
I look at it in relation to this world's
goods, since all of them put together
could never satisfy it; but when I consider
it with reference to Jesus, how
small it then appears to me.
II LETTER TO MÈRE AGNÈS DE JÉSUS
Yes, I now am able to say I have
received the grace of being no more
