Unless you be converted and become as little children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.
For St. Therese the word "little," which many would like to eliminate from her teaching, is the key to everything. She has made the Fatherhood of God live afresh for thousands of the faithful by calling us back from being children with a more or less independent life of our own, to become, as our Lord would have us, littlechildren, with no independent life at all, but depending absolutely on our heavenly Father. ... The present bishop of Lisieux is never weary of saying that St. Therese has shed a new light on one of the oldest and most fundamental of Catholic doctrines: God is our Father.
-From Father Vernon Johnson's
Spiritual Childhood, Ignatius Press edition, 2001, pages 10-11
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