St Therese of Lisieux
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“In an instant I understood what life was. Until then I hadn't seen it as so sad, but it appeared to me in all its reality, and I saw that it was only suffering and continual separation. I shed the most bitter tears, because I didn't understand yet the joy of sacrifice. I was weak, so weak that I see it as a great grace to have been able to endure a trial that seemed well beyond my strength!... If I had learned in a gentle way about my beloved Pauline's departure, perhaps I wouldn't have suffered so much but since I learned it by surprise, I felt as if a sword had been thrust into my heart [Lk. 2:35].”
― Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
― Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
“Herein lies one of the mysteries that no doubt we will understand in heaven and that will be the source of our unending admiration....
How good God is!... How He apportions our trials according to the strength that He gives us. Never, as I have just said, would I have been able to stand even the thought of the bitter pains that the future held in store for me. ...”
― Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
How good God is!... How He apportions our trials according to the strength that He gives us. Never, as I have just said, would I have been able to stand even the thought of the bitter pains that the future held in store for me. ...”
― Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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