Therese of 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.

Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that 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. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.

Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.

Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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