My dear Mařenka,
thank God for all the graces He gives you, and do not be so ungrateful as to fail to recognize them. (…) Mary, if you are nothing, you must not forget that Jesus is everything; therefore, you must lose your little nothing in His infinite everything and think of nothing but this uniquely lovable everything … You must not even wish to reap the fruits of your efforts. Jesus loves it when you keep only for Him these little nothings that please Him …
(Thérèse of Lisieux, letter 109, to Marie Guérin, July 1890)
