Therese of Lisieux Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

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• Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Self, Done, Interest

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• I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Speak, Felt

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• I am very far from practicing what I understand.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Inspiration, Christian Inspirational

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.109, ICS Publications

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

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  Eye, Goal, Heaven

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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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Past, Would Be, Looks

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.175, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

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• Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love Is, Space, All Time

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• Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Holy, Communion, Holy Communion

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• Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you- for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart... don't listen to the demon, laugh at him, and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace and love.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Jesus, Heart

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• Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Peace, Passion, Angel

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• The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spring, Flower, Simple

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• I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Sacrifice, Soul

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• If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.

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  Sweet, Flower, Humility

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.27, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Prayer, Children

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• 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

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• I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Shining, Want, Littles

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• It is love alone that counts.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Alone In Love

  Therese of Lisieux (2016). “St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Her Last Conversations”, p.268, ICS Publications

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• Look at Him while He is looking at you.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Looks

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• And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Thinking, Judging

  Saint Therese of Lisieux, Aeterna Press (2015). “Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of Saint Therese of Lisieux”, p.121, Aeterna Press

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• I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.

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  Humble, Catholic, Suffering

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• What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence...Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately...We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Jesus, Heart

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• Never stop wanting for your magic

  Therese of Lisieux

  Magic

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• How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.

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  Suffering, Doe, Cost

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