Thérèse of Lisieux Quotes, Thoughts and Image

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

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

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

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

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

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.

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

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

Love needs to be proved by action.

Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.

When one loves, one does not calculate.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

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

As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

Silence does good to the soul.

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

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.