Therese of Lisieux Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Book, Doctors

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.88, TAN Books

• Apart from the Office [the daily prayer of the Church] which is a daily joy, I do not have the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers. ... Unable either to say them all or to choose between them, I do as a child would who cannot read - I just say what I want to say to God, quite simply, and he never fails to understand.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Beautiful, Prayer, Children

• I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Spring, Flower

• (Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Sorry, Book

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