“It is the path of spiritual childhood, it is the way of trust and of entire self-surrender. I want to make known to them the simple means that have so perfectly succeeded for me, to tell them that there is but one only thing to do here below: to cast down before Jesus the flowers of little sacrifices, to win Him by caresses! That is how I have won Him, and that is why I shall be so well received.”
HIST. D’UNE AME, CH. XII
If I am misguiding you by my little way of Love, she said to a novice, do not fear that I shall let you follow it very long. I shall appear to you, and tell you to take another path; but if I do not return, believe in the truth of my words: never can we have too much confidence in the good God, so mighty and so merciful! As much as we hope for shall we obtain from Him!...
HIST. D’UNE AME, CH. XII
A novice said to her on the eve of the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel: “If you were to die to-morrow after Holy Communion, it seems to me that so beautiful a death would console me in the midst of my grief.”
And Thérèse replied with animation:
“Die after Holy Communion! On a grand Feast day! No, it will not be so: little souls could not copy that. In my little way there are only quite ordinary things; all that I do, little souls must be able to do also.”
HIST. D’UNE AME, CH. XII
FOOTNOTES:
[79] Cf. Matt., xix, 14.