Oh, Lord, I know that you do not command anything impossible, you know better than I my weakness, my imperfection, you know well that I could never love my sisters as you love them unless you yourself, Jesus, loved them in me. Since you wanted to grant me this grace, you gave a new commandment. – Oh, how I love them, and the certainty that it is your will to love in me all those whom you command me to love gives me comfort!
(Thérèse of Lisieux, manuscript C, 12v)