I know what to believe concerning His Mercy and His Love.

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It is not because I have been preserved from mortal sin that I lift up my heart to God in trust and love. I feel that even had I on my conscience every crime one could commit, I should lose nothing of my confidence: my heart broken with sorrow, I would throw myself into the Arms of my Saviour. I know that He loves the Prodigal Son, I have heard His words to St. Mary Magdalen, to the woman taken in adultery, and to the woman of Samaria. No one could frighten me, for I know what to believe concerning His Mercy and His Love. And I know that all that multitude of sins would disappear in an instant, even as a drop of water cast into a flaming furnace.

Source Story of a Soul, Chapter Xi, §9 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, trust in God rests not on our merits but on His love: even burdened with every possible fault, she would throw herself into the Saviour’s arms, for before His mercy our offences disappear “even as a drop of water cast into a flaming furnace”. Today, if you catch yourself falling into a fault or a moment of impatience, do not linger over reproaching yourself: entrust it at once to God with an act of love, and set out again in peace.

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