Therese of Lisieux famous quotes

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 of Lisieux

#Rose #Heaven #Earth

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

#Sympathy #Everyday #Tasks

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Catholic #Deeds #Brilliant

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

#Faith #Inspiration #Profound

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#People #Suffering

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

#Want #Holiness

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

#Beautiful #Prayer #Children

When one loves, one does not calculate.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Love #Life #Happiness

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

#Eye #Catholic #Remember

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

#Faith #Jesus #Inspiration

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

#Humble #Heart #Holiness

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

#Soul #Enough

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

#Eye #Goal #Heaven

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

#Pain #Joy #Forever

The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Spring #Flower #Simple

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

#Soul #Tents #Guests

By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Spiritual #Mean #Winning

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

#God #Sacrifice #Love Is

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Ideas #People #Shining

I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Shining #Littles #Want

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

#Order #Giving #Soul

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.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Faith #Father #Inspiration

nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Judging #Causes #Self-importance

It is love alone that counts.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Alone In Love

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Saint #Half #Catholicism

At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four years, who at play has got its hair tossed and its clothes soiled. These misfortunes have befallen me in battling with souls. But very soon the Blessed Virgin hastens to my aid: quickly, she takes off my dirty little pinafore, smoothes my hair and adorns it with a pretty ribbon or simply with a little flower... and this suffices to render me pleasing and enables me to sit at the Banquet of Angels without blushing.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Children #Dirty #Flower

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Faith #Inspiration #Self

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Inspirational Life #Heaven #Earth

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

#Jesus #Book #Doctors

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

#God #Jesus #Heart

If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Sweet #Flower #Humility

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.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Past #Care #Would Be

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

#Mom #Mother #Heart

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

#Peace #Past #Yield

Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Gratitude #Jesus #Prayer

Jesus does not so much look at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#God #Jesus #Greatness

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Happiness #Enough #Prove It

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

#Spring #Flower #Rose

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.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Prayer #Heart #Acceptance

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.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Beautiful #Sweet #Flower

My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Prayer #Lying #Moving

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 of Lisieux

#Inspire #Desire #Saint

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
-- Therese of Lisieux

#Peace #Angel #Justice

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 of Lisieux

#Sacrifice #Opportunity #Missing