soar above the clouds when the storm rages; we have simply to
suffer the showers. What does it matter if we get wet? We shall
dry ourselves in the sunshine of love.

"It recalls a little incident of my childhood. One day a horse was
standing in front of the garden gate, and preventing us from
getting through. My companions talked to him and tried to make him
move off, but while they were still talking I quietly slipped
between his legs . . . Such is the advantage of remaining small."

* * * * * *

Our Lord said to the mother of the sons of Zebedee: 'To sit on my
right or left hand is for them for whom it is prepared by my
Father.'[1] I imagine that these chosen places, which have been
refused alike to great Saints and Martyrs, will be reserved for
little children; and did not David foretell it when he said, that
'the little Benjamin will preside amidst the assemblies[2] of the
Saints.'"

* * * * * *

"You are wrong to find fault with this thing and with that, or to
try and make everyone see things as you see them. We desire to be
'as little children,' and little children do not know what is
best: to them all seems right. Let us imitate their ways. Besides,
there is no merit in doing what reason dictates."

* * * * * *

"My patrons and my special favourites in Heaven are those who, so
to speak, stole it, such as the Holy Innocents and the Good Thief.
The great Saints won it by their works; I wish to be like the
thieves and to win it by stratagem--a stratagem of love which will
open its gates both to me and to poor sinners. In the Book of
Proverbs the Holy Ghost encourages me, for He says: 'Come to me,
little one, to learn subtlety!'"[3]

* * * * * *

"What would you do if you could begin over again your religious
life?"

"I think I should do as I have already done."

"Then you do not share the feeling of the hermit who said: 'While
a quarter of an hour, or even a breath of life still remains to
me, I shall fear the fires of hell even though I should have spent
long years in penance'?"

"No, I do not share that fear; I am too small. Little children are
not damned."

"You are ever seeking to be as little children are, but tell us
what must be done to obtain that childlike spirit. 'Remaining
little'--what does it mean?"

"'Remaining little' means--to recognise one's nothingness, to
await everything from the Goodness of God, to avoid being too much
troubled at our