Therese of Lisieux Quotes about God

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.

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.

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

We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.

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

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!

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!

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

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

I will send a shower of roses.

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

(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.

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