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
At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He… — 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
As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul. — 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
It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven,… — 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
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
Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this… — 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
Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests. — 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
My soul experienced a peace so sweet, so deep, it would be impossible to express 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
