Letter 35 of Saint-Cyran

My Mother, you have retained well enough what you have heard and even if you had retained much less, the principle that remained with you spiritually would be enough. That does not consist in knowing things in detail. That is what often deceives the world which amuses itself picking up a lot of truths. A single truth is enough when we take care to moisten the soul before God by prayer and before men by good works. Be content with what you know. As long as you look to God for each action to draw to yourself new light, you will advance insensibly along his paths and you will be astonished that not having seen yourself grow at each moment, you will feel nonetheless that you have grown by the exercise of this kind of prayer and by good works.
Take care not to pass beyond the degree of your present grace and your gift. There is nothing so dangerous than to wish to leave the path where we are serving God in order to enter upon the path of someone else and to usurp gifts that we have not received by serving God by following the path of another rather than our own. That is to reverse the order of  God who has prescribed for each soul a path to go to him which is as particular as a face we look at is so different that it is  never found equal in two persons. And the uniqueness  we discover in a face is found likewise unique in all the other parts and faculties of the body and the soul from which are born the variety and the difference of our actions. It is true that we do have all of us something in common just as in the conduct of souls there are common and general rules that our faith teaches us and that we must all follow. Give yourself to God, my Mother, communicate often with him in peace and without any effort he will instruct you better in a small amount of time, prepared as you are by the divine seeds he has left in his Church, than all the Doctors of Theology in the University of Paris could in a century. Consider yourself happy to be his for it is a clear lack of gratitude not to have ceaselessly the feeling of his presence in your heart among the forsakenness he has caused for so many souls. And especially give him perpetual thanks in your heart for having delivered you from a brief affliction that was a very great obstacle to your salvation.

Translated from the French by Daniel McNeill

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