Provided I find good will in a soul, I am never weary of looking upon its miseries.
My love is fed by consuming miseries; the soul that brings me the most, if the heart is contrite and humble, is the one that pleases Me most, because she gives Me an opportunity of exercising more fully my office of Saviour.
But what I wish particularly to say to thee, my Benigna, is that the soul ought never to be afraid of God, because God is all-merciful; the greatest pleasure of the Sacred Heart of thy Jesus is to lead to His Father numerous sinners; they are my glory and my jewels. I love poor sinners so much!
Listen, My Benigna, My Joy, write this: The greatest pleasure souls can give Me is to believe in My love; the more they believe in it, the greater is My pleasure; and if they wish that My pleasure should be immense, let them place no limits to their faith in My love. […]
Yes, they have too narrow an idea of the goodness of God, of His mercy, His love for His creatures.
They measure God by creatures. and God has no limits; His goodness is without bounds. O that men are able to use God and will not do it!
Why is this? Because the world knows Him not. I am an infinite treasure which My Father has placed at the disposal of all. They who reject Me will comprehend their misfortune only in eternity. I love men; I love them tenderly as My dear brethren; although there is an infinite distance between them and Me, I make no account of it.
Thou canst not conceive the pleasure I take in fulfilling My Mission of Saviour.
When sins have been pardoned, they become for the soul fountains of graces because they are perpetual sources of humility.
Everything contributes to the advancement of a soul, everything; even her imperfections are in My divine hands like so many precious stones, because I change them into acts of humility, which I inspire the soul to make.
Words of Our Lord Jesus Christ to Sr. Benigna Consolata.
In: A Brief Sketch of the Life and Virtues of Our
Dear Sister Benigna Consolata Ferrero. Washington, DC:
Georgetown Visitation Convent, 1921, p.66; 70-71
