I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
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 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
