Theives of Heaven

Thieves of Heaven
«My protectors and my favorites in Heaven are those that stole it, like the Holy Innocents and the Good Thief». «The great saints earned it by their works: I want to imitate the thieves, I want to have it by guile, but the guile of love that will open its door, to me and poor sinners. The Holy Spirit seems to encourage me when he says in Proverbs: “O little one! Come, learn prudence from me”»8.


And she concluded: «Here is what we gain by being little. For the little obstacles do not exist, they slip by everywhere. The great souls can pass over the events, get round difficulties, succeed, through reasoning or virtue, to put themselves above everything, but we who are so little, must guard against attempting a similar enterprise. We pass underneath! To pass underneath events means not giving them too much importance nor reasoning about them»11.

St. Therese, Little Flower