Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
He longs to give us a magnificent reward. He knows that suffering is the only means of preparing us to know Him… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
(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… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
