Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
I went to a great church here in L.A., gave my heart to the Lord and felt freedom from things I've carried throughout my life that I just thought, 'I don't have to carry them any more.'
I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me.
Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.