The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
Therese of LisieuxMy director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.
Therese of Lisieuxthe storm thunders at my heart; I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.
Therese of Lisieux