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Soul Quotes by Therese of Lisieux
- 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…
- (On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
- I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
- Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.
- The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.
- 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…
- It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of…
- 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…
- Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet…
- The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
- 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…
- 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…
- Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
- Silence does good to the soul.
- Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.
- As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
- 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…
- I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from…
- A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
- 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…
- Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to choose, I do like children who do…
- One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.
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