Children Quote by Ian Osborn

“The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.”

— François Mauriac

And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God.…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are…

— George Eliot

“Oh, how sweet the first kiss of Jesus was! It was a kiss of love. I knew that I was loved and I declared:…

— John Beevers

“Thérèse’s emphasis on the “little ones” of the world—her insistence that we regard them not as burdens or embarrassments but as conduits of grace—transformed…

— Colleen Carroll Campbell

“Sanctification of the Spirit is the grace of salvation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“And she said, in a voice strangely unlike her own, 'I see the vision of a poor weak soul striving after good. It was…

— Olive Schreiner

“She [Thérèse] believed that the sublime splendour of ordinary existence was hidden from those who lived embedded in it, that for them the bread…

— François Mauriac

“The most holy Mother is Mediatrix of all graces without exception. . . . Therefore the life of grace of a soul depends on…

— St. Maximilian Kolbe

For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful,…

— Louisa May Alcott

“The heart enveloped in the tenderness of God passes that tenderness around indiscriminately, making no distinction between the worthy and the unworthy.”

— Brennan Manning

“Thankfully, God was faithful. Along with her loving and patient family, the Lord had comforted her, loved her, and brought her out of the…

— Sharon Gillenwater