Thérèse of Lisieux Short Quotes

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Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.

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

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I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!

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

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I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.

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

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I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others...

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My soul experienced a peace so sweet, so deep, it would be impossible to express it.

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No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.

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

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Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.

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If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

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My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.

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Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

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I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects—not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

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The more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

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It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

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Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.

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Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.

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You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen you, and to give you all that is wanting to you.

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When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.

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Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day.

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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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