Top 42 Therese De Lisieux Quotes
#1. Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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#2. If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
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#3. A soul in a state of grace has nothing to fear of demons who are cowards.
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#4. Do you realize
that Jesus is there
in the tabernacle
expressly for you-
for you alone? He
burns with the
desire to come into
your heart ... don't
listen to the demon,
laugh at him, and
go without fear to
receive the Jesus of
peace and love ...
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#5. You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions,nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.
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#6. unchanging truth, that unless we become as little children in the doing of our Heavenly Father's Will, we cannot enter into our Eternal Home.
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#7. To dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself to all that is painful and bitter, because Love lives only by sacrifice and the more we would surrender ourselves to Love, the more we must surrender
ourselves to suffering
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#8. The one, more Latin, more Roman, closer to eloquence than to the literal word, aims at a certain effect, at magic. The other, more Greek, more Hellenistic, seeks transparency flowing from the source.
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#9. And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.
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#10. My God, how good Thou art! How well dost Thou suit the trial to our strength!
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#11. We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them.
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#13. Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.
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#14. It is wrong to pass one's time in fretting, instead of sleeping on the Heart of Jesus.
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#15. Ah! How contrary are the teachings of Jesus to the feelings of nature! Without the help of His grace it would be impossible not only to put them into practice, but to even understand them.
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#16. Then, overcome by joy, I cried, 'Jesus, my love. At last I have found my vocation. My vocation is love. In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and then I will be all things.
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#18. The brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy.
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#19. When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.
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#20. Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
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#21. It's true, I suffer a great deal
but do I suffer well? That is the question.
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#24. God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
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#25. I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
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#26. For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
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#28. I said before, that I have learnt much by guiding others. In the first place I see that all souls have more or less the same battles to fight, and on the other hand, that one soul differs widely from another, so each must be dealt with differently.
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#29. That beautiful day passed just as the saddest ones do, since the most radiant of days has a tomorrow.
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#30. When something painful or disagreeable happens to me, instead of a melancholy look, I answer by a smile. At first I did not always succeed, but now it has become a habit which I am glad to have acquired.
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#31. For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy; finally it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.
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#32. Just as the sun shines on all the trees and flowers as if each were the only one on earth, so does God care for all souls in a special manner.
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#34. My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
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#35. I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects
not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
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#36. It is consoling that he who must judge us dwell in us to save us always from all of our miseries, and to pardon us.
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#38. It is better to leave each one in his own opinion than to enter into arguments.
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#39. I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell.
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#40. A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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#41. The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily
do not rob the little violet of it's scent nor the daisy of its simple charm.
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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