Top 100 Therese of Lisieux Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.”

— Therese of Lisieux

52. “For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one’s eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it’s a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.”

— Therese of Lisieux

53. “She is more Mother than Queen.”

— Therese of Lisieux

54. “Discouragement itself is a form of pride.”

— Therese of Lisieux

55. “Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?”

— Therese of Lisieux

56. “Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.”

— Therese of Lisieux

57. “I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.”

— Therese of Lisieux

58. “Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.”

— Therese of Lisieux

59. “I will send a shower of roses.”

— Therese of Lisieux

60. “Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.”

— Therese of Lisieux

61. “Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.”

— Therese of Lisieux

62. “Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.”

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

64. “By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.”

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

66. “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

67. “The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.”

— Therese of Lisieux

68. “Trust and trust alone should lead us to love.”

— Therese of Lisieux

69. “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

70. “For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.”

— Therese of Lisieux

71. “Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.”

— Therese of Lisieux

72. “As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.”

— Therese of Lisieux

73. “Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.”

— Therese of Lisieux

74. “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.”

— Therese of Lisieux

75. “I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.”

— Therese of Lisieux

76. “I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.”

— Therese of Lisieux

77. “No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.”

— Therese of Lisieux

78. “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

79. “I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.”

— Therese of Lisieux

80. “Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.”

— Therese of Lisieux

81. “Never stop wanting for your magic.”

— Therese of Lisieux

82. “It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.”

— Therese of Lisieux

83. “Look at His adorable face. Look at His glazed and sunken eyes. Look at His wounds. Look Jesus in the Face. There, you will see how He loves us.”

— Therese of Lisieux

84. “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

85. “My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him – but all this in peace – in abandonment.”

— Therese of Lisieux

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

— Therese of Lisieux

87. “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.”

— Therese of Lisieux

88. “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

89. “It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.”

— Therese of Lisieux

90. “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?’”

— Therese of Lisieux

91. “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

92. “I’m suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That’s the point!”

— Therese of Lisieux

93. “Look at Him while He is looking at you.”

— Therese of Lisieux

94. “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.”

— Therese of Lisieux

95. “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

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

— Therese of Lisieux

97. “He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.”

— Therese of Lisieux

98. “He longs to give us a magnificent reward. He knows that suffering is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself, and to become ourselves divine.”

— Therese of Lisieux

99. “I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others...”

— Therese of Lisieux

100. “The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.”

— Therese of Lisieux