But her letters also contain a wealth of sisterly instruction for souls. Her autobiography remains a work of enduring greatness and spiritual guidance to millions. “I will labor for Your love alone,” she prayed, “to please Your Sacred Heart and to save souls who will love You forever.” Therese lived and taught this spirituality of attentive love for God and neighbor. She strove to do even the smallest acts with great love: "What matters in life," she wrote, "is not great deeds, but great love." St. She had lived each day with an unshakable confidence in God's love and providential will. She instructed this way to the novices entrusted to her in the last years of her life. In it, she compared her soul to a “little flower” and described her life as a "little way of spiritual childhood”.
Therese of the Child Jesus through her autobiography, Story of a Soul, which was written under obedience and became one of the most widely read spiritual books of the time.
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