Therese and The Little Way of Love and Healing Quotes

“In a letter to her favourite sister, Céline, Thérèse says “let us love our bitterness” (LT197) and “it suffices to humble oneself, to bear with one’s imperfections. That is real sanctity”
― John O'Brien, Therese and the Little Way of Love and Healing

“Her little way consists of abandonment. This is her act of accepting the love of God which is infinite. It takes courage to accept acceptance, to accept we are loved unconditionally – it takes courage because we have so often experienced the opposite. The little way consists in living with our smallness and imperfections. Jesus is The One who lifts us up.”
― John O'Brien, Therese and the Little Way of Love and Healing

“Jesus lived in a world where it is impossible to be fully human without undergoing suffering. Ultimately, this led to his cross. Yet by the power of the Holy Spirit, Jesus rose from the dead and is present to us by the power of the same Holy Spirit. His life points us to the humanity that lies hidden in us all. Yet this is where many are most afraid. Many of us have experienced rejection – to reject someone is to totally wound the heart of the person. In such ‘darkness’ it is hard to believe that one is loved.”
― John O'Brien, Therese and the Little Way of Love and Healing

“The fullness of love is found in God Who is Love itself and as we enter, by the grace of The Holy Spirit, into the heart of God’s love, we become healthy and “when love is perfect ” the soul (she) “will have full health”.”
― John O'Brien, Therese and the Little Way of Love and Healing

“change, limitations or abnormalities in the position of the person in their social context. The human heart thirsts for love and the heart that is not loved dies. When the heart is wounded by a lack of love, it fulfils the modern definition of illness. The person suffers impairment in interaction, his or her activity is reduced and the person is unable to participate with others.”
― John O'Brien, Therese and the Little Way of Love and Healing

“St. John of The Cross tells us: “…love of God is the soul’s health and the soul does not have full health until love is complete. Sickness is nothing but the lack of health, and when the soul has not even a single degree of love she is dead. But when she possesses some degrees of love of God, no matter how few, she is then alive, yet very weak and infirm because of her little love. In the measure that love increases she will be healthier, and when love is perfect she will have full health.” (Spiritual Canticle, 12.11)”
― John O'Brien, Therese and the Little Way of Love and Healing

“Thérèse’s life and her little way is a journey to this love and it is a way of allowing this love - the love that God has for us - become the life of the soul. In the measure that loves grows, the healthier we become.”
― John O'Brien, Therese and the Little Way of Love and Healing

“Thérèse would embrace this heart of love in a world where the heart of darkness reigns. Thérèse’s prayer, faith and life became a living statement that this heart is not the one that will conquer in the end.”
― John O'Brien, Therese and the Little Way of Love and Healing