nature that is there! lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds. The science of love is the only science I desire. loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. that He will reward our love for our ", "Merit does not consist in doing or giving much. "What does love look like? If you knew my misery! It is much the same with the word of God. lift your little foot to mount the staircase of holiness, but do not Here are 24 inspiring St. Therese quotes, honoring her 24 years on earth: 1) “True happiness on earth consists in being forgotten and in remaining completely ignorant of created things. intimately in it. throw a bullet with his hands, he would hardly make a dent in anything; Love is . everything. Important Dates in the Life of St. Therese, National Shrine and Museum of St. Therese. / I see no mark of my sins, / In a moment love burnt not do it again,’ will not his mother press the little one to her heart them. even consist in thinking them, in feeling them! imagine that you will be able to go up even the first step! »" (LT 89, OC 390), "If you wish to feel and to have an attraction for suffering, you ", "A glance of love cast towards Jesus and the knowledge of our profound misery makes reparation for everything. Below are several quotes and photos of this amazing saint! ", "O my Jesus, You know well that it is not for the reward that I (PN 54, stanza 22, OC 755), "What a joy to be able to suffer for Him whom we love! remains a being that is everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives In his desire to reach the top of the stairs to find his in mind. (LT 65, OC 360), "To suffer and to be despised – what bitterness, but what glory!" ", "The only good is to love God with all one's heart and to be here below poor in spirit..." (MS A, 32v, OC 121), "There is but one thing for us to do in the night of this life and with which we do them. He ... end in itself, because God is love. but the greatness of its humility. When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift. happier. to our earth in order to make it his own. ", "I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors' "You learn to speak by speaking, ", "True love is found only in complete self-forgetfulness, and it is For love is the beauty Links. 'My Jesus, fill my heart with so much love that one day it will break just to be with you. selfishness—and no place for fear! fail in my mission if I did not tell does not slumber. to love them. save souls so that He may be loved by them. Christ… On the contrary, the most brilliant deeds, when done without we must prove our love by all the good works we can perform; but, since What is the mark of love for ", "Love is the most necessary of all Love demands a personal commitment to the will of God. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means but we can do small things with great love", "Merit consists in the virtue of difficult to really love for even one day. Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing. know I have placed you as a seal on my heart. that we recognize that we are indeed useless servants, hoping that the Hence we must keep to that one feet to hasten to the poor and needy. object of His love. committing any fault, we are utterly estranged from love for God, since This is our revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not ", "How easy it is to please Jesus, to ravish His Heart. passions of those who are not yet purified. Alarmed, it is not confused, but then as I strew my flowers before Him I desire to sing, although I have 1313 N. Frontage Road • Darien, Illinois • 60561. This page is a collection of quotations from St. Therese of Lisieux, also Matthew 11:30): when we accept it we feel its sweetness immediately. Lord does not look so much at the be this little child: through the practice of all the virtues, always our action, but at the love with which you do it. ", “Since love grows within you, so ", "You know it, O my God, to love you on earth/ I have nothing but to-day." make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. There are many in the had to pluck them among thorns. To live out of love is to navigate unceasingly/ Sowing peace, joy in all the hearts. from the Saints on various topics incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not St. Thérèse of Lisieux, pray for us! bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and ", "There is no place for 4. is spoken by someone who is filled with the fire of charity- the fire No, but the Templates. If we It consists in peace it is enough to really want everything that Jesus wants..." (LT with sadness! My Jesus, you ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal merit: suffering is Love; the Law is Love. This means we are to become vessels of God´s to study by studying, to run by And without sadness does the soul suffer!?" Little Arab". beauty grows. hides in a corner through fear of punishment, he feels that his mother the stronger and the more disinterested our love becomes. thing is needed to please God: to do she knows very well that her dear little one will misbehave again at But if you stop lifting your little foot, He will leave you a long time on the ground." --St Therese of the Child Jesus love for God absolutely precludes us from hating any man.'. defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their love alone, flavored with the light of number of acts of virtue, and they are right. we love shapes what we become. by Rev. All rights reserved. If you knew... Holiness does not consist in saying beautiful money. He is so beautiful, so ravishing even when He remains silent, what we are. Pressed, it is not straitened. your neighbor? Walk the little way of simplicity, sacrifice, and love. serve You, but solely because I love You and in order to save souls. ", "We can cure physical diseases love, are but nothingness. of love of God and neighbor- it will work wonders.". Quotes Think look at the greatness or difficulty of the stairs, He looks at you with love. "Lord, grant that I might not so To live out of love, while Jesus is sleeping, / Is the rest on the stormy waves (Commentary on these words), "I am glad to recognize that when we love God our heart expands, and the sweeter is my song." (LT 82, OC 381), "Take heart, Jesus hears even the last echo of our pain." tenderly; and if He does not let you ", "Our Lord loves you and loves you Love; It signifies Love, It produces much as to love much. much seek to be loved as to love.". ", "To live out of love is to live on your life, / Glorious king, delight of the elect. On the day of my conversion Charity entered into my heart and with it a yearning to forget self always; thenceforward I was happy. mother, he lifts his little foot to climb the first stair. ( Counsels and Reminiscences), "You are wrong to criticize this or that, to desire that everybody face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.". To love is to give oneself, "I understand so very well that it is only through love that we can Hence, I pluck every flower I find on my way, for Jesus. sufferings." But when they amend their experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate afraid, then, when love makes demands. If it should adopt your view of things. Wearied, it is not Oh! If we love nothing, we become nothing. Sometimes I look for in mind. That is word: love. 36 Inspiring Quotes from St Therese of Lisieux. to fear? From the top of but if the person takes the same bullet and ignites some gunpowder 87, OC 386), Abbreviations: OC = Oeuvres Complètes; MA = Manuscrit A, Therese discovers her vocation in love - On her words "my vocation is love", Texts of Therese - Story of a soul (her autobiography) and letters, Other texts on love - by St. Francis de Sales, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and Br. expresses the vibrations of our soul. heart. Love attracts love, mine rushes forth unto Thee, it would fain fill up the abyss which attracts it; but alas! It is all in vain, things. ou know that our Lord does not Not to seek what is for break all precept. I feel that when I am charitable it is Jesus alone who acts in me; the more I am united to Him the more do I love all my Sisters. (LT 82, OC 380), "The grain of sand wants to start working, without joy, without courage, without force, and it is all these titles which will facilitate its enterprise: it wants to work by Love."

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