December 6, 1906
✞ Jesus hides to see what the soul does.
Volume 7 — Entry 71
This morning my always adorable Jesus came and told me: "My daughter, my Will is the center, the other virtues are the circle. Imagine a wheel in whose middle all the rays are centered. What would happen if one of these rays wanted to detach itself from the center? First, that ray would look bad; secondly, it would remain dead, while the wheel, in moving, would get rid of it.
Such is my Will for the soul. My Will is the center. All the things which are not done in my Will, and only to fulfill my Will - even holy things, virtues or good works - are like the rays detached from the center of the wheel: works and virtues with no life. They could never please Me; rather, I do everything to punish them and to get rid of them."