Thérèse of Lisieux Quotes

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

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

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

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

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

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

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

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

When one loves, one does not calculate.

Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.

Love needs to be proved by action.

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

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

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

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

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

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

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

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

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

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

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

Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.

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

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

Silence does good to the soul.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.