Therese of Lisieux Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

• God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Giving, Desire

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Giving, Suffering, Weakness

• God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Order, Giving, Soul

• 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

• We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Lying, Opportunity

• Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Giving, Suffering, Chosen

• He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this agony from us. He needs it for souls and for our soul... Alas, it does pain Him to give us sorrows to drink, but He knows this is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself and to become God's ourselves.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Religious, Pain, Mean

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Giving, Want

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

• My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Christian, Jesus

• 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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Angel, Giving, Bread

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.73, TAN Books

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Giving, Soul, Honor

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

• He longs to give us a magnificent reward. He knows that suffering is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself, and to become ourselves divine.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Mean, Giving, Suffering

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.227, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Kindness, Giving, Thousand

  Marc Foley, OCD, St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux Study Edition”, ICS Publications

• 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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Giving, Soul, Charity

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.20, TAN Books

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