Let us love our smallness, let us love that we feel nothing.

Ah, let us truly stay far away from what glitters, let us love our smallness, let us love the fact that we feel nothing, and thus we will be truly poor in spirit and Jesus will come to find us, so far where we will be, He will transform us into flames of love.

(Therese of Lisieux, Letter 197, to Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart, September 17, 1896)