Therese of Lisieux Quotes

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Eye, Catholic, Remember

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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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Father, Inspiration

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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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spiritual, Doe, Saint

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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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• The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.

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  Giving, Soul, Honor

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2014). “Letters of St. Therese of LIsieux, Volume II: General Correspondence 1890-1897”, p.238, ICS Publications

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Inspirational, Peace, Past

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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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• Silence does good to the soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Silence, Catholic, Soul

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2014). “Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux, Volume I: General Correspondence 1877-1890”, ICS Publications

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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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Jesus, Greatness

  "The Story of the Soul".

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

  Therese of Lisieux

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spring, Flower, Rose

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

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  Inspire, Desire, Saint

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

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  Mom, Mother, Heart

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

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  Catholic, Saint, Half

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

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  Rose, Heaven, Earth

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