Therese of Lisieux Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Catholic, Saint, Deeds

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.8, TAN Books

• 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".

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

  Therese of Lisieux

  Catholic, Saint, Half

• For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, God, Christian

• 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

• Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Eye, Goal, Heaven

• 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

• True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Suffering, Weakness, Saint

• God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Inspire, Desire, Saint

• Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. I understood that there were many kinds of of sanctity and that each soul was free to respond to the approaches of Our Lord and to do little or much for Him - in other words,to make a choice among the sacrifices He demands.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Sacrifice, Perfection, Choices

• I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Heaven, Suffering, Saint

• God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a saint. It is impossible for me to grow bigger, so I put up with myself as I am, with all my countless faults. But I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight, a little way that is quite new[...] It is your arms,
  Jesus, which are the lift to carry me to heaven, And so there is no need for me to grow up. In fact, just the opposite: I must stay little and become less and less.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Growing Up, Mean

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