the king is God, your beauty

January 27

 If Providence has removed from us the reason for neglecting the soul to worry about improving our body, has infinite wisdom of God to be put into our hands all the means to beautify our souls, even after having deformed the guilt. Just that the soul wants to cooperate with divine grace to her beauty to achieve such glory, such beauty, such beauty that will attract to itself, for love or awe, not only the eyes of the angels but those of God himself, according to testimony by the same sacred scripture: "the king is God, your beauty."
(November 16, 1914, at Raffaelina Cerase - Letter´s. II, p. 226)