“Understand that to love Jesus, to be His victim of love, the weaker one is, without desires or virtues, the more apt one is for the operations of that transforming and consuming Love. The desire to be a victim is enough of itself, but one must consent to stay always poor and without strength, and that’s the difficulty, for where are we to find the truly poor in spirit? He must be sought afar, says the psalmist. He does not say we must look for him among great souls, but ‘afar,’ that is in lowliness and nothingness. Ah! do let us stay very far from all that is brilliant, let us love our littleness, love to feel nothing, then we shall be poor in spirit, and Jesus will come for us, far off as we are, He will transform us in love’s flames.”

— St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Please follow and like us: