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Fr. Jean C. J. d'Elbée, a French priest deeply imbued with St. Thérèse's spirit, brings you St. Thérèse's teachings on God's love and the confidence in Him that it should inspire in your soul; humility, peace, and fraternal charity; the apostolate; the Cross; and what it means truly to abandon yourself to Divine Providence.
I Believe in Love has helped countless souls embark on the way to the Father. It will help you focus on Him throughout each day, rest in Him amid your troubles, and live joyfully with Him at every moment!
280 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1969
Then there is the cross of having carried the cross badly. There is a very practical point here. How many times someone has told me, “I had made a resolution to be generous in suffering. Then a trial came. I balked, even rebelled. How many merits I lost!” Thus we add to our original cross that of having carried it badly. It is here that we return to the words of little Thérèse: “We would like to suffer generously. We would like never to fall-what an illusion!” See what a lack of logic this is: to moan about having moaned and then to go on moaning! No! Say to Jesus, “Now I accept the cross You have sent me, which I at first rejected, and I accept not having accepted it right away.” That is the great resource of humble confidence pushed to its extreme. You can always, in the present moment, throw yourself into the arms of Jesus, which are always open to receive you. It is the present moment which is so important. In that moment you can take leave of all the past by giving it to Him, in order to bury yourself at the bottom of His Heart. How many people in the world drag their crosses like a millstone! A beautiful apostolate to carry out among the people around you would be to teach them the price of the Cross, and joy in the Cross. Souls understand that—they understand all that is divine truth, since they are made, created, and modeled by God to understand it. But we must learn to show them this with great tact and compassion as well as conviction.Now that I have finished it, I want to begin it again, because it has given me new eyes, eyes to see Him more clearly, or maybe I mean HIS Eyes, the eyes of HIS Heart. I do not see always this way, but when I remember things I have read and learned here, it is like He has given me Sight ... that Sight He gave the Blind Man in Sacred Scripture. But as I am still my poor self, it does not last. I forget and lose His Eyes again.