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to dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself to all that is painful and bitte… - Thérèse of Lisieux
" "to dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself to all that is painful and bitter, because Love lives only by sacrifice and the more we would surrender ourselves to Love, the more we must surrender
ourselves to suffering
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About Thérèse of Lisieux
Thérèse of Lisieux (2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897) was a French Discalced Carmelite nun. She was canonized in 1925.
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Also Known As
Also Known As:
The Little Flower
Alternative Names:
Therese of Lisieux
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Saint Therese of Lisieux
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Therese Martin
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Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, O.C.D.
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Marie-Françoise-Therese Martin
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Santa Teresa de Lisieux
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Teresita del Nino Jesus
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St Theresa of the Child Jesus
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Marie-Françoise Martin
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Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin
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If we examine the poems of Thérèse of Lisieux at all, they reveal themselves richer than we first thought. And this is the problem with her poetry: We have to go beyond the simple style, which is naturally and deliberately artless — as is fitting for a “Carmelite poem” — to discover the treasures it conceals.
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