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 Love alone have I ever given to the good God, with love He will repay me.

All that I have written regarding my desire of suffering is most true; oh! I do not repent of having surrendered myself to Love.

Jesus! Jesus! if it be so sweet to desire Thy Love, what will it be to possess and to enjoy it for ever!

O Jesus! could I but tell all ''little souls'' of Thine ineffable condescension! I feel that if it were possible to find one more weak than mine Thou wouldst take delight in showering upon her greater favours still, provided that she abandoned herself with entire confidence to Thine Infinite Mercy.