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Synopsis
From her early years, Th r se of Lisieux desired to be a saint, so the primary focus of her life was to walk the path of love-what she called "the science of love." But she often asked herself if her love was pure and authentic. With sensitivity and insight, author Joseph Schmidt shows us how Th r se discovered certain qualities of the heart that told her that she was indeed walking the path of authentic love. These qualities-inner freedom, creativity, compassion, willingness, self-surrender or abandonment, and gratefulness-"opened her heart to a new depth of God's life in and through her." Eventually, they played a very practical role in Th r se's ordinary day-to-day life relationships-and they can in our own as well.
As he did in his earlier book on Th r se, Everything Is Grace, Joseph Schmidt breaks new ground in his latest book and offers tremendous food for thought and reflection on the spirituality of this great saint.