Their two worlds were divided by a gulf which affection could not bridge.

She spoke not with her own voice but with that of her confessors when she pled with him to do her wishes.
"I have lived long," she said, "and know that the bread of this world is ashes.

There is no peace but in God.

You have always been the child of my heart, Philip, and I cannot die at ease till I am assured of your salvation....

I have the prevision that from me a saint shall be born.
It is God's plain commandment to you.