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A review by leelulah
Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux by Thérèse de Lisieux
5.0
Forever grateful to the person who lended me this book. I'd have read it faster if finals weren't in the middle, but perhaps it was for the best. It requires a lot of patience and thought to dissect our own logic and open yourself to the Love that God provides, and even in the simple words of St. Therese you can sense something more complex than your brain would be able to understand, something going on that only can be felt by the experience of that love. It only can be lived.
Of course, the story of her life was also deeply saddening, to lose both parents at an early age, the zeal of serving God whose realization seemed to get more delayed than anything else... but in the end, God provided as she knew He would.
Her faith and humility shine through the book. Though she often says she's not that wise compared to St. Therese of Ávila, I beg to differ. I have to read something by the former, but I sense in this such knowledge that surpasses everything I read in many books. It's as touching as people say of St. Augustine, and other saints as well, it's as deep. Because the experience of God will always leave you with things unsaid.
Many episodes through the book seem to get us out of our comfort zone: like the little Therese telling her parents that she wanted them to die because she wanted them to be happy, to go to Heaven, or the resignation, the deliberate seeking of humiliation towards the end, but of course, we have a lot to learn from her example, and this reading is an opportunity to do so. I await for the day that my french gets good enough to read it in its original language, I think it must be really wonderful to be able to do so.
Of course, the story of her life was also deeply saddening, to lose both parents at an early age, the zeal of serving God whose realization seemed to get more delayed than anything else... but in the end, God provided as she knew He would.
Her faith and humility shine through the book. Though she often says she's not that wise compared to St. Therese of Ávila, I beg to differ. I have to read something by the former, but I sense in this such knowledge that surpasses everything I read in many books. It's as touching as people say of St. Augustine, and other saints as well, it's as deep. Because the experience of God will always leave you with things unsaid.
Many episodes through the book seem to get us out of our comfort zone: like the little Therese telling her parents that she wanted them to die because she wanted them to be happy, to go to Heaven, or the resignation, the deliberate seeking of humiliation towards the end, but of course, we have a lot to learn from her example, and this reading is an opportunity to do so. I await for the day that my french gets good enough to read it in its original language, I think it must be really wonderful to be able to do so.