Top 100 Therese 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#2. Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.

Therese Of Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #4439
#3. Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

Therese De Lisieux

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#4. I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!

Therese Of Lisieux

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#5. Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#6. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#7. The more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

Therese Of Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #119254
#8. It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#9. I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...

Therese Of Lisieux

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#10. 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.

Therese De Lisieux

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#11. She is more Mother than Queen.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#12. Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#13. Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#14. A soul in a state of grace has nothing to fear of demons who are cowards.

Therese De Lisieux

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#15. I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#16. Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

Therese Of Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #198244
#17. My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

Therese Of Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #212171
#18. 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 ...

Therese De Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #219535
#19. 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.

Therese De Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #221357
#20. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#21. The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

Therese Of Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #248521
#22. Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

Therese Of Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #262406
#23. Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

Therese Of Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #274906
#24. The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#25. 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.

Therese De Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #293959
#26. 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

Therese De Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #315612
#27. I want to give myself totally to Him ... I want to live no longer but for Him.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#28. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#29. 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!

Therese Of Lisieux

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#30. He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.

Therese Of Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #338396
#31. The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#32. 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.

Therese De Lisieux

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#33. Never stop wanting for your magic

Therese Of Lisieux

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#34. 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.

Therese De Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #401204
#35. How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

Therese Of Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #401293
#36. (Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!

Therese Of Lisieux

Therese Lisieux Quotes #414312
#37. Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#38. My God, how good Thou art! How well dost Thou suit the trial to our strength!

Therese De Lisieux

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#39. Talking to God, I felt, is always better than talking about God; those pious conversations - there's always a touch of self-approval about them. THERESE OF LISIEUX[1] I

Eugene H. Peterson

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#40. What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence ... Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately ... We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!

Therese Of Lisieux

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#41. In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#42. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#43. We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them.

Therese De Lisieux

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#44. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#45. Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#46. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#47. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#48. Trust and trust alone should lead us to love

Therese De Lisieux

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#49. Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#50. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#51. When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#52. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#53. Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.

Therese De Lisieux

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#54. It is wrong to pass one's time in fretting, instead of sleeping on the Heart of Jesus.

Therese De Lisieux

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#55. What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?

Therese Of Lisieux

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#56. 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.

Therese De Lisieux

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#57. For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#58. (On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#59. 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.

Therese De Lisieux

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#60. Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#61. Ever since his first attack

Therese De Lisieux

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#62. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#63. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#64. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#65. He longs to give us a magnificent reward. He knows that suffering is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself, and to become ourselves divine.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#66. 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.

Therese De Lisieux

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#67. When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Therese De Lisieux

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#68. Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#69. 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.

Therese De Lisieux

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#70. Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#71. It's true, I suffer a great deal
but do I suffer well? That is the question.

Therese De Lisieux

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#72. The world's thy ship and not thy home.

Therese De Lisieux

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#73. Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!

Therese Of Lisieux

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#74. 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 ...

Therese Of Lisieux

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#75. It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#76. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#77. Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#78. If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#79. I say nothing to him I love him

Therese De Lisieux

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#80. As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#81. God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

Therese De Lisieux

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#82. Love needs to be proved by action.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#83. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#84. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#85. 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?'

Therese Of Lisieux

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#86. Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#87. I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#88. The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#89. Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#90. I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#91. I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

Therese De Lisieux

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#92. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#93. Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#94. Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#95. 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.

Therese De Lisieux

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#96. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#97. Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

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#98. 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.

Therese Of Lisieux

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#99. 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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#100. 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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