Therese of Lisieux God Quotations

(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.

Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

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

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

I will send a shower of roses.

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.

(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!

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

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!

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

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

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.

Jesus does not so much look at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.