Full of trust…
Jesus has shown me the only way that leads to the fire of divine love: it is that of a little child who, full of trust, falls asleep in his Father’s arms. –Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Voluntary expiatory suffering…
Thus, when someone desires to suffer, it is not merely a pious reminder of the suffering of the Lord. Voluntary expiatory suffering is what truly and really unites one to the Lord intimately. When it arises, it comes from an already existing relationship with Christ. For, by nature, a person flees from suffering.
–Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
Leave it with God…
And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.
— Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891-1942)
Confidence in God…
We can never have too much confidence in the good God who is so powerful and so merciful. We obtain from Him as much as we hope for.
–Saint Therese Lisieux (1873-1897)
Little acts of kindness…
What I did try to do was to thwart my self-will, which always seemed determined to get its own way; to repress the rejoinder which sometimes came to my lips; to do little acts of kindness without attaching any importance to them.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Act of self-denial…
Believe me, the writing of pious books, the composing of the sublimest poetry; all that does not equal the smallest act of self-denial.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
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