“Her “Little Way”, just because it meant the unremitting and minute implementing of this surrender in each and all of the little things that fill up the immensely greater portion of our lives, was in fact a Way of unlimited breadth and content: it meant not the fruit and the flower only, but the stock and the root too—the root first, and then of necessity all the rest with it. One understands how, to one bent as Thérèse was on missing no opportunity of giving whatever her hand found to give, such trifling irritations as the splashings of a too vigorous sister at the washtub or the bead rattling of a restless neighbor in Choir, were quite fit vehicles for that heroic abnegation which had the occasion been greater she would have practiced no less wholeheartedly. ”
–R. H. J. Steuart, S.J., “St. Thérèse of Lisieux,” in Saints Are Not Sad: Studies in Sanctity from St. Paul to St. Thérèse of Lisieux, edited by F. J.Sheed
