Love Quotes by Therese of Lisieux

Look at Him while He is looking at you.

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

It is love alone that counts.

— Therese of Lisieux

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

For me to love you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and then only would…

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.

— Therese of Lisieux

I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me…

— Therese of Lisieux

For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which…

— Therese of Lisieux

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty,…

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set…

— Therese of Lisieux

My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to…

— Therese of Lisieux

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

Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine…

— Therese of Lisieux

Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her…

— Therese of Lisieux

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I…

— Therese of Lisieux

You heard me, only Friend whom I love. To ravish my heart, you became man. You shed your blood, what a supreme…

— Therese of Lisieux

Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to choose, I do like…

— Therese Of Lisieux

For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a…

— Therese of Lisieux

We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our…

— Therese of Lisieux

O Jesus! on this day, you have fulfilled all my desires. From now on, near the Eucharist, I shall be able To…

— Therese of Lisieux

We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute,…

— Therese of Lisieux

At this time I choseas friends two little girls of my own age; but how shallow are the hearts of creatures! Oneof…

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

Love needs to be proved by action.

— Therese of Lisieux

Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.

— Therese of Lisieux

God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence…

— Therese of Lisieux

Jesus does not so much look at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with…

— Therese of Lisieux