Even if – which is impossible – even God himself did not see my good deeds, I would not be sad at all. I love him so much that I would want to make him happy even if he did not know it was me. When he does know and sees, he is somehow obligated to "repay me." I would not want to give him that worry.
(Thérèse of Lisieux, Last Conversations, May 9, 1897)