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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Encouragement, Mean, Perfect

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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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Sacrifice, Opportunity, Missing

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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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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• 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.

  Therese of Lisieux

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Heart, Made

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

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Holiness, Want, God's Will

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• Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love Is, Catholic, Crosses

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• Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

  Therese of Lisieux

  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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  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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• It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Giving, Suffering, Weakness

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Life, Sympathy, Peace

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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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Beautiful, Sweet, Flower

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

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Catholic, Saint, Half

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• Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Dream, Jesus, Joy

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• When one loves, one does not calculate.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Life, Happiness

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Flower, Shining, Catholic

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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!

  Therese of Lisieux

  Sweet, Blessed, Giving

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Inspiration, Profound

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Angel, Hands

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