I find perfection very easy, because I have understood that one only needs to catch Jesus by the heart... Look at a child who has just upset their mother by being naughty or disobedient. If they stubbornly hide in the corner and scream in fear of being punished, the mother will certainly not forgive the mistake. But when she comes, and the child reaches out to her with their hands and says with a smile: Kiss me, I won't do it again, what else can the mother do but gently press them to her heart and forget about their childish mischief?... And yet she knows that her dear little one will do it again at the first opportunity, but that doesn’t matter; if they catch her by the heart again, they will never be punished...
(St. Therese of Lisieux, correspondence, letter from July 12, 1896)
