Quotes from Therese of Lisieux

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

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.

For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

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!

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

Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

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

It is love alone that counts.

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.

Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day.

Trust and trust alone should lead us to love

Love needs to be proved by action.

I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.

In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

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

God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.

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.

I say nothing to him I love him

Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.

For me to love you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and then only would I be at rest.

i can nourish myself on nothing but truth

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

Receive Communion often, very often...there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.