s him actually blind.

"If the greatest sinner on earth should repent at the moment of
his death, and draw His last breath in an act of love, neither the
many graces he had abused, nor the multiplied crimes he had
committed, would stand in his way. Our Lord would see nothing,
count nothing, but the sinner's last prayer, and without delay He
would receive him into the arms of His Mercy.

"But, to make Him thus blind and to prevent Him doing the smallest
sum of addition, we must approach Him through His Heart--on that
side He is vulnerable and defenceless."

* * * * * *

I had grieved her, and had gone to ask her pardon: "If you but
knew what I feel!" she exclaimed. "Never have I more clearly
understood the love with which Jesus receives us when we seek His
forgiveness. If I, His poor little creature, feel so tenderly
towards you when you come back to me, what must pass through Our
Lord's Divine Heart when we return to Him? Far more quickly than I
have just done will He blot out our sins from His memory. . . .
Nay, He will even love us more tenderly than before we fell."

* * * * * *

I had an immense dread of the judgments of God, and no argument of
Soeur Therese could remove it. One day I put to her the following
objection: "It is often said to us that in God's sight the angels
themselves are not pure. How, therefore, can you expect me to be
otherwise than filled with fear?"

She replied: "There is but one means of compelling God not to
judge us, and it is--to appear before Him empty-handed." "And how
can that be done?" "It is quite simple: lay nothing by, spend your
treasures as you gain them. Were I to live to be eighty, I should
always be poor, because I cannot economise. All my earnings are
immediately spent on the ransom of souls.

"Were I to await the hour of death to offer my trifling coins for
valuation, Our Lord would not fail to discover in them some base
metal, and they would certainly have to be refined in Purgatory.
Is it not recorded of certain great Saints that, on appearing
before the Tribunal of God, their hands laden with merit, they
have yet been sent to that place of expiation, because in God's
Eyes all our justice is unclean?"

"But," I replied, "if God does not judge our good actions, He will
judge our bad ones." "Do not say that! Our Lord is Justice itself,
and if He does not judge our good actions, neither will He judge
our bad ones. It seems to me, that for Victi