You know that I love nothing as much as being involved closely with God and having always a continual will to follow him. I do it willingly even on the least occasions when he makes his will come to life in me. He knows that I have you in my heart, abbess, and that I persuade myself easily that it is he who put you there. I am not only inclined to bear witness to it by letters, which contain only words, but by all kinds of works that are agreeable to him which come from a number of works that the Holy Spirit wishes that we accomplish in time. That is all I wish to say to you now setting aside many more other possible words that I will not speak to you because the least affections which take birth from the charity of God are as ineffable as he. Everything else whether it would be miracles or a free and abundant sacrifice of our body or of our wealth are counted for nothing by Saint Paul who assures us that we can give the whole world as alms for God and sacrifice for him our life like the martyrs and deceive ourselves. For it is only the interior movement of the spirit of God which makes our exterior works good. This obliges us to practice a marvelous discretion in all our enterprises to block an activity of our heart which often makes us do what God does not find good although it appears so to men.
Translated from the French by Daniel McNeill.
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