Because I call them to be great in love, in holiness, in heroism, they must become the smallest of all. Oh, my priests are not yet, all of them, my little children, but I will make them so, because it is only in this way that they can grow in trust for me.
Blue Book #41f
Be at peace! This dark aridity is joyful, for this is the beginning of wisdom, for your beloved is the very Wisdom of God. He teaches you his wisdom now in the loneliness and silence of the desert, now in the quiet and darkness of the night of love. There are two nights in this world: the night of hate and the night of love. This is the night of love.
Grace in Every Season (February 27)
The process of becoming ‘little’ or of being ‘taken down a notch’ … can be extremely painful to go through, but this ‘night of love’ which is so contrary to everything the world tells us, is the only way to get us to where we need to be. Less of me, more of Him!