He and I by Gabrielle Bossis

When Gabrielle was nine years old she heard the voice of Christ. She didn't think anything of it, assuming that everyone heard voices. in 1936, when she was fifty-four, the voice came back. "Do you rememebr when you were nine years old, I spoke to you? Now I want you to write down everything I say. Gabrielle published her book in French in seven volumes under the title "Lui et Moi". The Daughters of St. Paul in Canada have published it in English in one volume under the title He and I. It is a profoundly moving book, showing the most tender side of God. I found that one or two paragraphs were all I could manage at a time. The wisdom here is so obviously supernatural. It is a daily spiritual guidebook rather than a book you can sit down with and read cover to cover. I recommend this little book to everyone I give spiritual guidance to.

Gabrielle was a single woman who earned her living from rents. She also acted in parish plays. One day she was in the Paris train station, burdened with heavy luggage. She said to Him: "If I had a husband, he could help me with these heavy bags!" He answered, "Think of me, my child, as I carried my heavy cross." She came right back, "Yes, but you had Simon of Cyrene." Immediately, a man came over and helped her with her bags!

One, day He said to her, "Gabrielle, I don't want you to get the idea that I just love you all as one big group. No, 'EACH SOUL IS MY FAVORITE!'" I love each one as if they were the only one. Do you know who you are? You are my reason for tearing myself from the splendors of my Father, and going to all the depths of human shame... (see Holy Shroud on "The Face of Jesus" page.)

More of my favorite quotes:

"The world only offers pleasure. But the pleasures of the world decrease a person. My joy which I alone can give, increases a person."

"How happy you will be on that day if you have denied yourself to please your God! How miserable you will be if you have only lived to please yourself."

"I give you everything you need in your thoughts."

"On earth it is I who enjoy you. In Heaven, it will be you who enjoy Me."

On May 25, 1950, she asks, "Have I come to the end of my life? Is this the moment when I celebrate my first and last Mass? Where are you, loving presence? ... And afterward, what will it be?" "It will be I. It will be I. FOREVERMORE."