Quotes from Therese of Lisieux

The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.

In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.

She is more Mother than Queen.

In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.

What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?

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.

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

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

My soul experienced a peace so sweet, so deep, it would be impossible to express it.

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

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

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

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.

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

Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?

The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.

In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.

Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.

I will send a shower of roses.

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

Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

The world's thy ship and not thy home.

The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.