1. “Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.” – Therese of Lisieux
2. “I’m suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That’s the point!” – Therese of Lisieux
3. “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.” – Therese of Lisieux
4. “Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.” – Therese of Lisieux
5. “the thoughts of the Lord are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways.” – Therese of Lisieux
6. “I am very far from practicing what I understand.” – Therese of Lisieux
7. “Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.” – Therese of Lisieux
8. “No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.” – Therese of Lisieux
9. “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
10. “Just one such faint spark can set the whole world on fire.” – Therese of Lisieux
11. “It’s true, I suffer a great deal-but do I suffer well? That is the question.” – Therese of Lisieux
12. “Never stop wanting for your magic.” – Therese of Lisieux
13. “When one loves, one does not calculate.” – Therese of Lisieux
14. “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
15. “The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.” – Therese of Lisieux
16. “Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.” – Therese of Lisieux
17. “The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.” – Therese of Lisieux
18. “Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.” – Therese of Lisieux
19. “It is true that Love knows no such word as ‘impossible,’ for it deems ‘all things possible, all things allowed.’” – Therese of Lisieux
20. “I say nothing to him I love him.” – Therese of Lisieux
21. “The world’s thy ship and not thy home.” – Therese of Lisieux
22. “Love needs to be proved by action.” – Therese of Lisieux
23. “Perfect love means putting up with other people’s shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.” – Therese of Lisieux
24. “I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.” – Therese of Lisieux
25. “If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.” – Therese of Lisieux
26. “If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.” – Therese of Lisieux
27. “We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them.” – Therese of Lisieux
28. “The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.” – Therese of Lisieux
29. “When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure.” – Therese of Lisieux
30. “It is better to leave each one in his own opinion than to enter into arguments.” – Therese of Lisieux
31. “Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.” – Therese of Lisieux
32. “Love can do all things. The most impossible tasks seem to it easy and sweet. 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. What, then, have we to fear?” – Therese of Lisieux
33. “Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.” – Therese of Lisieux
34. “It is love alone that counts.” – Therese of Lisieux
35. “It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.” – Therese of Lisieux
36. “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
37. “Life is your barque not your home!” – Therese of Lisieux
38. “Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart.” – Therese of Lisieux
39. “The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.” – Therese of Lisieux
40. “The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.” – Therese of Lisieux
41. “Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.” – Therese of Lisieux
42. “A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.” – Therese of Lisieux
43. “Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.” – Therese of Lisieux
44. “Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.” – Therese of Lisieux
45. “The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.” – Therese of Lisieux
46. “How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.” – Therese of Lisieux
47. “Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.” – Therese of Lisieux
48. “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.” – Therese of Lisieux
49. “I have not the courage to force myself to seek beautiful prayers in books; not knowing which to choose I act as children do who cannot read; I say quite simply to the good God what I want to tell Him, and He always understands me.” – Therese of Lisieux
50. “A brother who’s helped by a brother is like a strong city.” – Therese of Lisieux
51. “He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.” – Therese of Lisieux
52. “The good God does not need years to accomplish His work of love in a soul; one ray from His Heart can, in an instant, make His flower bloom for eternity.” – Therese of Lisieux
53. “Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.” – Therese of Lisieux
54. “Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.” – Therese of Lisieux
55. “Even if the fire of love seemed to have gone out, I would keep on throwing fuel in it and Jesus would take care to light it up again.” – Therese of Lisieux
56. “I will send a shower of roses.” – Therese of Lisieux
57. “Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.” – Therese of Lisieux
58. “Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.” – Therese of Lisieux
59. “Above the clouds the sky is always blue.” – Therese of Lisieux
60. “Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.” – Therese of Lisieux
61. “It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.” – Therese of Lisieux
62. “I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.” – Therese of Lisieux
63. “In Heaven, God will do all I desire, because on earth I have never done my own will.” – Therese of Lisieux
64. “Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.” – Therese of Lisieux
65. “It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.” – Therese of Lisieux
66. “Time is your boat not your home.” – Therese of Lisieux
67. “Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.” – Therese of Lisieux
68. “My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.” – Therese of Lisieux
69. “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
70. “Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.” – Therese of Lisieux
71. “I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.” – Therese of Lisieux
72. “You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.” – Therese of Lisieux
73. “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
74. “My only consolation lies in not having any here below.” – Therese of Lisieux
75. “I will sing even when I must pick my flowers amid thorns. The longer and sharper the thorns are, the sweeter my song will sound.” – Therese of Lisieux
76. “Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.” – Therese of Lisieux
77. “Trust and trust alone should lead us to love” – Therese of Lisieux
78. “nobody is a good judge in his own cause!” – Therese of Lisieux
79. “Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.” – Therese of Lisieux
80. “Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled… yes… the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.” – Therese of Lisieux
81. “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
82. “Life is passing, and eternity is drawing near. Soon we shall live the very life of God. After we have been filled at the source of all bitterness, our thirst will be quenched at the very Fountain of all sweetness.” – Therese of Lisieux
83. “I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.” – Therese of Lisieux
84. “Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.” – Therese of Lisieux
85. “Nothing whatsoever but the love of Jesus could have made me face these difficulties and others which followed, for I had to purchase my happiness by heavy trials.” – Therese of Lisieux
86. “God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.” – Therese of Lisieux
87. “In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.” – Therese of Lisieux
88. “As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.” – Therese of Lisieux
89. “The science of loving, yes, that’s the only kind of science I want I’d barter away everything I possess to win it.” – Therese of Lisieux
90. “If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness” – Therese of Lisieux
91. “Discouragement itself is a form of pride.” – Therese of Lisieux
92. “We are not as yet in our true country, and as gold is tired in the fire so must our souls be purified by temptation.” – Therese of Lisieux
93. “Look at Him while He is looking at you.” – Therese of Lisieux