St Therese Martin Quotes

"Holiness consists simply in doing God's will and being just what God wants us to be." This quote is from Saint Therese of Lisieux, the little flower of Jesus. She loved flowers and saw herself as a beautiful flower in God's garden. She was a novice Carmelite Nun who completely devoted herself to God, giving her the title of Little Flower. Although she was faithfully devote, she never performed great miracles of mighty deeds. She instead offered up small sacrifices to God when in times of hardship. I chose St. Therese because of her beginnings, life of holiness and devotion to God until the very end. Saint Therese was born on January 2, 1873 with the name if Marie-Francoise-Therese Martin in Alencon, France. She was the second youngest of her parents, Saint Marie-Azelie Guerin and Saint Louis Martin. When St. Therese was young, her mother passed away and her oldest sister entered the convent. Though she had many hardships as a child, her father spoiled her and she always whined when ever she was scolded. When she was 7, she became ill with a fever, so ill that

The Mother Superior refused to take her so because of her young age, instead Therese asked the bishop, and he said no, too. When she was 15, she went on a pilgrimage to Rome, she went to an audience with the Pope and begged him to let her in. She was the admitted in to the convent, but she would never excel because she made a great sacrifice to remain a novice when asked by her prioress, Pauline her sister. If Therese's family gained too much power in the Carmelite order, people would complain and they would be thrown out of the convent. As a novice, she never went on missions or performed miracles. Yet she made up for this by offering sacrifice to God everyday.She took the emotional pain and sadness of being forever a novice, and gave it up to