Monday, March 11, 2013
St. Therese of the Child Jesus pictures
Iwas afraid they were not at all equally happy.
You made me bring Daddy’s tumbler and put it by the side of my thimble.
You
filled them both with water and asked me which was fuller. I told you they were
both full to the brim and that it was impossible to put more water in them than
they could hold. And so, Mother darling, you made me understand that in heaven
God will give His chosen their fitting glory and that the last will have no
reason to envy the first. By such means, you made me understand the most
sublime mysteries and gave my soul its essential food. –St. Thérèse of Lisieux,
The
Story of a Soul.
Friday, March 1, 2013
St. Therese of the child Jesus - writings and sayings
"What a joy to be able to suffer for Him whom we love!"
"Let us not believe that we can love without suffering, and without suffering a great deal. It is our human nature that suffers, our poor God-given human nature which, however, is so precious, that Jesus came on purpose to our earth to clothe Himself with it.
Let us suffer without bitterness, that is, without feeling courage. Jesus suffered with sadness. Could we say that a soul was suffering if it did not experience sadness? And could we then claim that we are suffering generously, nobly... Celine... what an illusion that would be!"
"If you wish to feel and to have an attraction for suffering, you are in search of your own consolation, for when we love anything, pain disappears."
"Holiness does not consist in saying beautiful things, it does not even consist in thinking them, in feeling them! It consists in suffering and in suffering everything. «Holiness – it has to be conquered at the point of the sword, one has to suffer… one has to agonize!... »"
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