III. The divine action offers us at each moment infinite blessings which we receive in proportion to our faith and love 79 IV. God reveals Himself to us as mysteriously, as adorably, and with as much reality in the most ordinary events as in the great events of history and the Holy Scriptures 82 V. The divine action continues in our hearts the revelation begun in Holy Scripture; but the characters in which it is written will be only visible at the last day 86 VI. Divine love is communicated to us through the veil of creatures, as Jesus communicates Himself to us through the veil of the Eucharistic species 92 VII. The divine action, the will of God, is as unworthily treated and disregarded, in its daily manifestation, by many Christians, as was Jesus in the flesh by the Jews 94 VIII. The revelation of the present moment is the more profitable that it is addressed directly to us 97 IX. The revelation of the present moment is an inexhaustible source of sanctity 99 X. The present moment is the manifestation of the name of God and the coming of His kingdom 101 XI. The divine will imparts the highest sanctity to souls; they have but to abandon themselves to its divine action 106 XII. The divine action alone can sanctify us, for it forms us after the divine Model of our perfection 114 BOOK THIRD. _THE PATERNAL CARE WITH WHICH GOD SURROUNDS SOULS WHOLLY ABANDONED TO HIM._ CHAPTER PAGE I. God Himself guides souls who wholly abandon themselves to Him 119 II. The more God seems to withdraw light from the soul abandoned to His direction, the more safely He guides her 125 III. The afflictions with which God visits the soul are but loving artifices at which she will one day rejoice 129 IV. The more God seems to take from a soul wholly abandoned to Him, the more generous He is to her 133 V. The less capable the faithful soul is of defending herself, the more powerfully does God defend her 136 VI. The soul abandoned to the will of God, so far from resisting its enemies, finds in them useful auxiliaries 140 VII. The soul that abandons itself to God has no need to justify herself by words or actions; the divine action abundantly justifies her 142 VIII. God gives life to the soul abandoned to Him by means which apparently lead only to death 144