Top 100 Therese Of Quotes
#1. 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
#2. He believed, as I did, that we are helpless to resist or influence what our hearts are bound to do. - Z - A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Therese Anne Fowler
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Remember, the center of a woman is her uterus. Her crazy, crazy uterus.
Therese Oneill
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Not all writers want to be profound (though an awful lot of them do); some want to entertain, some want to inform; some are trying to provoke the most basic, universal feeling using a minimum of words-I think of Emily Dickinson -to demonstrate how it is to be human in our crazy world today.
Therese Anne Fowler
#13. Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
Therese Of Lisieux
#15. 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
#16. (On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
Therese Of Lisieux
#17. For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
Therese Of Lisieux
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. It is wrong to pass one's time in fretting, instead of sleeping on the Heart of Jesus.
Therese De Lisieux
#21. Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.
Therese Doucet
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time.
Patricia Highsmith
#26. Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
Therese Of Lisieux
#27. 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
#28. The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
Teresa Of Avila
#30. Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
Therese Of Lisieux
#32. I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.
Therese Of Lisieux
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#38. 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
#39. As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
Therese Of Lisieux
#40. 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
#42. 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
#43. Nothing except luck protects you from catastrophe. Not love. Not money. Not faith. Not a pure heart or good deeds
and not bad ones either, for that matter. We can, any of us, be laid low, cut down, diminished, destroyed.
Therese Anne Fowler
#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 ...
Therese Of Lisieux
#47. -no, I was a strange new Zelda Sayre released from all constrictions, drunk with the timeless rhythms of sea and sun and passion, more daring and oblivious to danger than I'd ever been before.
Therese Anne Fowler
#48. Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
Therese Of Lisieux
#49. His eyes, grayish green in that light, reminded me of the rare icicle in Montgomery, or a pebbled creek's rushing stream in early spring. They revealed his intelligence in a way that made me want to dive inside his head and swim in its depths.
Therese Anne Fowler
#50. 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
#51. But when they kissed goodnight in bed, Therese felt their sudden release, that leap of response in both of them, as if their bodies were of some materials which put together inevitably created desire.
Patricia Highsmith
#52. I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...
Therese Of Lisieux
#53. The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
Therese Of Lisieux
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Therese had read about that special pleasure people got from the fact that someone they loved was attractive in the eyes of other people, too. She simply didn't have it.
Patricia Highsmith
#59. 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
#60. I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
Therese Of Lisieux
#61. A soul in a state of grace has nothing to fear of demons who are cowards.
Therese De Lisieux
#62. Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
Therese Of Lisieux
#65. Being a doctor he didn't want for choices, but also being a doctor he understood the fragility of bone and sinew that encompassed the even more fragile organ of the heart. He envisioned Therese's as being wound in intricate, tight, vinelike veins that he would slowly make sense of and unravel.
Tara Lynn Masih
#67. 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
#68. Like certain devotees, who think they can fool God and wrest a pardon by paying lip-service to prayer and adopting the humble attitude of the penitent, Therese humiliated herself, beat her chest, found words of repentance, without having anything in the bottom of her heart except fear and cowardice.
Emile Zola
#69. Was life, were human relations like this always, Therese wondered. Never solid ground underfoot. Always like gravel, a little yielding, noisy so the whole world could hear, so one always listened, too, for the loud, harsh step of the intruder's foot.
Patricia Highsmith
#70. 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
#72. Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.
Therese Fowler
#74. I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!
Therese Of Lisieux
#76. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#82. In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
Therese Of Lisieux
#83. 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
#84. We glared at each other then, with the kind of hatred that comes from being deliberately wounded in one's softest, most vulnerable places by a person who used to love you passionately.
Therese Anne Fowler
#85. Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
Therese Of Lisieux
#87. How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.
Therese Of Lisieux
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
Therese Of Lisieux
#92. 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
#94. 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
#95. I want to give myself totally to Him ... I want to live no longer but for Him.
Therese Of Lisieux
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
Therese Of Lisieux
