Thérèse de Lisieux Quotes

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.

Thérèse de Lisieux

That beautiful day passed just as the saddest ones do, since the most radiant of days has a tomorrow.

Thérèse de Lisieux

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.

Thérèse de Lisieux

I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell.

Thérèse de Lisieux

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

Thérèse de Lisieux