Thérèse De Lisieux Quotes

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

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.

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

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.

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

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

Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

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.

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

The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.

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.

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

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.

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

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

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.

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

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

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

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

Silence does good to the soul.

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

My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.

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

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

When one loves, one does not calculate.

I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

Never stop wanting for your magic

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

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

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.

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

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

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.

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.

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.

Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.

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

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

The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.

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!