For Your Love Alone

(St. Thérèse of Lisieux)

“After earth’s exile, I hope to go and enjoy You in the fatherland, but I do not want to lay up merits for heaven. I want to work for Your love alone.... In the evening of this life, I shall appear before You with empty hands, for I do not ask You, Lord, to count my works. All our justice is blemished in Your eyes. I wish, then, to be clothed in Your own justice and to receive from Your love the eternal possession of Yourself.”

~St. Thérèse of Lisieux