I love... their courageous love!

Do not think that you frighten me when you speak of "your wasted best years." Thank God that He looked upon you with love as He once did with the young man from the Gospel. (…) You love Saint Augustine, Saint Mary Magdalene, those souls to whom much was forgiven because they loved much. I love them too, I cherish their repentance, and above all – their loving courage!

(Thérèse of Lisieux, letter 247, to Abbé Bellières, June 21, 1897)