Thoughts of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus (Ilustrated)

Thoughts of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus (Illustrated)
Author: Saint de Lisieux Thérèse
Copyright status: Public Domain
Category: Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements, Meditations

Brief quotations from The Story of a Soul, Counsels, and Reminiscences, and her letters, arranged under different topics. Shows her greatness of soul and that she was no Saint by accident. Beautiful and surprising! A book cherished by many.

CONTENTS
LOVE OF GOD
LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBOUR
FAITH
HOPE
HUMILITY
DETACHMENT
MORTIFICATION
OBEDIENCE
POVERTY
CONFIDENCE
SELF-ABANDONMENT
GRATITUDE
ZEAL
SIMPLICITY
PRAYER
HOLY COMMUNION
SUFFERING
THE DIRECTION OF SOULS
THE BLESSED VIRGIN
VARIOUS SUBJECTS
PRAYER FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF THE SERVANT OF GOD

JESUS!. . I would so love Him! Love Him as never yet He has been loved. . .
IV LETTER TO MÈRE AGNÈS DE JÉSUS
(Her sister Pauline.)

THE science of love! Sweet is the echo of that word to the ear of my soul. I desire no other science. Having given all my substance for it, like the spouse in the Canticles, I think that I have given nothing. [1]
HISTOIRE D'UNE AME, CH. VIII
[1] Cant., viii, 7.

WITHOUT love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. VIII

One evening, at a loss for words to tell Jesus how I loved Him and how much I wished that He might be everywhere served and glorified, I reflected with pain that not one act of love would ever mount upwards from out of the depths of hell. Then I cried out that willingly would I consent to see myself plunged into that place of torment and blasphemy, in order that He might be loved there eternally. That could not really glorify Him since He desires only our happiness, but love makes one want to say a thousand foolish things. If I spoke thus, it was not that I did not long for heaven; but then, my heaven was none other than Love, and in my fervor, I felt that nothing could separate me from the Divine object of my love. . .
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. V

SEEING the eternal recompense so disproportionate to the trifling sacrifices of this life, I longed to love Jesus, to love Him ardently, to give Him a thousand proofs of tenderness while yet I could do so. . .
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. V

THE love of God reveals itself in the very simplest soul who resists His grace in nothing, as well as in the most sublime. Indeed, the characteristic of love being too humble itself, if all souls resembled those of the holy Doctors who have enlightened the Church, the good God would not seem to descend low enough in coming to them. But He has created the infant who knows nothing and can only wail; He has created the poor savage who has but the natural law for guidance, and it is even unto their hearts that He deigns to stoop.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. I

IN order that Love may be fully satisfied it must needs stoop to very nothingness and transform that nothing into the fire.
HIST. D'UNE AME, CH. XI

IN times of aridity when I am incapable of praying, of practicing virtue, I seek little opportunities, mere trifles, to give pleasure to Jesus; for instance, a smile, a pleasant word when inclined to be silent, and to show weariness. If I find no opportunities, I at least tell Him again and again that I love Him; that is not difficult and it keeps alive the fire in my heart. Even though this fire of love might seem to be extinct I would still throw little straws upon the embers and I am certain it would rekindle. Source: Wikipedia

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