Therese of Lisieux Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Heart, Acceptance

• 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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  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

• Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Soul

• 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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Lying, Moving

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.68, 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

• Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Silence, Blessed Sacrament

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2014). “Letters of St. Therese of LIsieux, Volume II: General Correspondence 1890-1897”, p.56, ICS Publications

• Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Heart, Peaceful

• Look at Him while He is looking at you.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Looks

• For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it's a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Prayer, Grateful

• For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

• It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Father, Two

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