"Charity", she wrote, "gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that if the Church had a body composed of different members, the most necessary and most noble of all could not be lacking to it, and so I understood that the Church had a heart and that this heart was burning with love.
Thérèse de Lisieux n'a pas seulement saisi et décrit la vérité profonde de l'Amour comme le centre et le cœur de l'Église, mais elle l'a vécu intensément dans sa brève existence.