I always feel the same bold confidence of becoming a great saint because I don't count on my merits since I have none... God alone, content with my weak efforts, will raise me to Himself and make me a saint, clothing me in His infinite merits

SS-72

St. Therese

Little

...you can see that I am a very little soul and that I can offer God only very little things.

SS-250

St. Therese

I look upon myself as a weak little bird, with only light down as covering... At times the little bird's heart is assailed by the storm, and it seems it should believe in the existence of no other thing except the clouds surrounding it. ....It cries like a swallow and in its sweet song it recounts in detail all its infidelities, thinking in the boldness of its full trust that it will acquire in even greater fullness the love of Him who came to call not the just but sinners.

SS 198/199

St. Therese

Spiritual Sisters

Celine became the confidante of my thoughts...Jesus...formed bonds in our hearts stronger than blood. He made us become spiritual sisters,....The sparks of love He sowed so generously in our souls, and the delicious and strong wine He gave us to drink made all passing things disappear before our eyes... With enraptured gaze we beheld...the bright stars twinkling in the deep skies, the light breath of the evening breeze making the snowy clouds float easily along; all this raised our souls to heaven, that beautiful heaven whose "obverse side" alone we were able to contemplate.

SS-103

St. Therese

Mama told Marie to dress me in my Sky-blue frock with the lace trimmings but not to leave my arms bare lest the Sun burn them. I allowed myself to be dressed with the indifference a child of my age should really have, but I thought to myself that I would look much more pretty with my arms bare.

St. Therese
Story of a Soul p 24

Misunderstanding

Ah! poor women, how they are misunderstood! And yet they love God in much larger numbers than men do and during the Passion of Our Lord, women had more courage than the apostles since they braved the insults of the soldiers and dared to dry the adorable face of Jesus. It is undoubtedly because of this that he allows misunderstanding to be their lot on earth, since He chose it for Himself. In heaven He will show that His thoughts are not men's thoughts, for then the last will be first.

St. Therese of Lisieux
(Story of a Soul p 140)

Feb 6

The Blessed Virgin...didn't have a Blessed Virgin to love. And so this is one more sweetness for us and one less sweetness for her!

St. Therese

Feb 4

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes to us each day from heaven, it's to find another heaven, infinitely more dear to Him than the first; the heaven of our soul, made to His image, the living temple of the adorable Trinity!
(Story of a soul p 104)

St. Therese