Therese of Lisieux Quotes about Soul

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

Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.

Silence does good to the soul.

The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.

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

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

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

I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.

My soul experienced a peace so sweet, so deep, it would be impossible to express it.

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

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.

When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell.