Top 100 Therese Of Lisieux Quotes
#1. Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled ... yes ... the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.
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#3. I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!
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#5. I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
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#7. I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...
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#10. Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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#11. I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
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#12. Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.
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#14. God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.
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#15. The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
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#18. The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
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#19. I want to give myself totally to Him ... I want to live no longer but for Him.
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#20. Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
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#21. Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!
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#23. The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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#25. How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.
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#27. Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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#28. In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
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#29. For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it's a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.
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#30. For me to love you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and then only would I be at rest.
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#31. I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
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#32. In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.
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#33. Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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#34. My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.
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#35. For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.
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#36. What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
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#37. For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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#38. (On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
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#39. Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
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#40. True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
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#41. I have not the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers ... Unable either to say them all or choose between them, I do as a child would do who cannot read-I say just what I want to say to God, quite simply, and he never fails to understand.
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#42. Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day.
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#43. Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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#45. Receive Communion often, very often ... there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing ...
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#47. Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.
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#49. As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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#51. Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.
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#52. Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.
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#53. In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'
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#55. I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.
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#57. Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
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#59. Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
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#62. The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.
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#63. Look at His adorable face. Look at His glazed and sunken eyes. Look at His wounds. Look Jesus in the Face. There, you will see how He loves us.
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#64. By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.
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#65. When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
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#66. The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
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#67. Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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#68. Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
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#69. How I loved the feasts! ... I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for me to throw flowers beneath the feet of God! ... I was never so happy as when I saw my roses touch the sacred Monstrance ...
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#70. If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.
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#71. You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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#72. Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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#74. When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.
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#75. The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.
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#76. Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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#78. (Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books ... If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God.
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#79. The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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#80. The storm thunders at my heart; I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.
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#81. How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face ... I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.
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#83. You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen you, and to give you all that is wanting to you.
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#84. The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.
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#86. Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
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#87. No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
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#90. He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.
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#92. I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.
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#94. I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.
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#97. Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.
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#98. If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace flood me. For I have the Host as my support. When I draw near the ciborium, All my sighs are heard ... To be nothing is my glory. I am the atom of Jesus ...
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#99. Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.
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#100. A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.
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