Jesus, let us win souls for Him by our sacrifices. Above all let us be little, so little that all the world may trample us under foot without even our appearing to feel it or to suffer from it.
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
You are wrong to find fault with one
thing and another, and to seek that all
should yield to your way of viewing
things. We want to be like little children,
and little children know not what is
best, to them all seems well; let us
imitate them. Besides there would be
no merit [in obedience] were we only
to do what would appear reasonable to
us.
COUNSELS AND REMINISCENCES
A novice under a temptation which
seemed to her insurmountable said:
"This time I cannot rise above it—it is
impossible." Thérèse replied: "Why do
you try to rise above it? Pass beneath
it quite simply. It is very well for great
souls to soar high above the clouds when
