Therese of Lisieux Quotes

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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 - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.

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Faith, Father, Inspiration

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

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Eye, Catholic, Remember

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The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

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Spiritual, Doe, Saint

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Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.

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Sacrifice, Opportunity, Missing

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You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

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God, Jesus, Greatness

"The Story of the Soul".

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Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.

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Encouragement, Mean, Perfect

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

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Spring, Flower, Rose

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

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Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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

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God, Gratitude, Jesus

St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.92, ICS Publications

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

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Holiness, Want, God's Will

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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

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Faith, Inspiration, Clouds

St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “The Poetry of St. Therese of Lisieux: The Complete Edition”, p.206, ICS Publications

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

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Lasts, Found, Vocation

Therese of Lisieux (2016). “St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Her Last Conversations”, p.19, ICS Publications

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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 the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all the lowly flowers wished to be roses, nature would no longer be enamelled with lovely hues. And so it is in the world of souls, Our lord's living garden.

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Beautiful, Sweet, Flower

Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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

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Inspirational, Peace, Past

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

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Love, Heart, Made

St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.9, TAN Books

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The world's thy ship and not thy home.

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Home, World, Ships

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

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Life, Sympathy, Peace

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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

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Faith, Inspiration, Profound

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

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God, Needs, Imperfect

St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.127, ICS Publications

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

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Mom, Mother, Heart

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

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Looks, Trials, World

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If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.

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Past, Would Be, Looks

Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.175, Cosimo, Inc.

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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 to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!

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Sweet, Blessed, Giving

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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 midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.

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Gratitude, Jesus, Prayer

St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.115, ICS Publications

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

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God, Speak, Felt

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Born: January 2, 1873
Died: September 30, 1897
Occupation: Saint
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