Phrases of Santa Teresa di Lisieux, also known as Santa Teresina of the Child Jesus, famous quotes from the writings, aphorisms and famous thoughts to be spread.
Quotes of Saint Teresa of Lisieux
- Jesus is not far away, it is there that he looks at us, that he is begging for our sadness, our agony. He needs it for souls, for our soul. He wants to give us such a beautiful reward! His ambitions are so great for us!
- For me, prayer is an impulse of the heart, a simple glance thrown towards the sky, it is a cry of gratitude and love in trial as in joy: in short, it is something great, supernatural, which dilates my soul and unites me to Jesus.
- I no longer desire suffering or death, yet I love them both, but it is only love that attracts me.
- The true humble person is never sure of his virtues: in an ordinary way, those he discovers in others seem more solid and deeper than his.
- How sweet is the way of love! Without a doubt, you can fall well, you can commit infidelities, but love, knowing how to profit from everything, quickly consumes all that can displease Jesus, leaving only a humble deep peace at the bottom of the heart.
- Charity is the way par excellence that surely leads to God.
- Spirit directors carry on in perfection by having a great number of acts of virtue done, and they are right; but my director, who is Jesus, does not teach me to count acts, teaches me to do everything for love, not to refuse him anything, to be happy when he gives me an opportunity to show him that I love him, but all this in peace, in abandonment. It is Jesus who does everything, I do nothing.
- I need to forget the earth. Here everything tires me, everything weighs on me, I find nothing but a joy: that of suffering for Jesus; and this unheard joy overcomes all joy.
- When I feel nothing, when I am unable to pray, to practice the viru, this is the moment to look for small occasions, for nothing that pleases Jesus more than the empire
of the world, more than the martyrdom suffered heroically. For example, a smile, a lovable word when I just want to be silent or to have a bored air.
- Jesus, if I wanted to write all my wishes, I would have to take your book of life, there are narrated the actions of all the Saints, and I would have done those actions for you.
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- If all the small flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose its spring garment, the fields would no longer be covered with inflorescences. So it is in the world of souls, which is the garden of Jesus. God wanted to create the great Saints, who can be compared to lilies and roses; but he has created even smaller ones, and these must be content with being daisies or violets, destined to brighten the gaze of the Lord when he deigns to lower it.
- As a torrent that rushes impetuously into the ocean and overwhelms everything behind it that has found its passage, so, my Jesus, the soul that sinks into the ocean of your love, attracts with it all the treasures that It owns.
- Happiness consists only in hiding, in remaining in ignorance of created things. I understood that, without love, all things are nothing, even the most splendid like raising the dead or converting peoples.
Aphorisms of Saint Teresa of Lisieux
- How great is the power of prayer! One would say she is a queen who has free access to the king at all times and can obtain everything she asks for.
- Oh, how sweet is the way of love! As I want to dedicate myself to always do, with the greatest abandonment, the will of the Lord.
- The road we travel is very different, but the goal is the same. We must have only one goal: to become saints in the way that the good God has traced out to us.
- I want to look for the means of going to Heaven by a very straight, very short way, a little new way. We are in a century of inventions, it is no longer worth climbing the steps, in the homes of the wealthy a lift replaces them advantageously. I would also like to find an elevator to rise up to Jesus, because I am too young to climb the hard ladder of perfection.
- There are many degrees in perfection, and that each soul is free to respond to the invitations of Our Lord, to do little or much for him, in short, to choose between the sacrifices that he asks for.
- The lift that must lift me up to Heaven are your arms, Jesus! This is why I don't need to grow, on the contrary, it must remain small, that it will become more and more.
- Trials help a lot to detach themselves from the earth, they make us look higher, beyond this world.
- For me, prayer is an impulse of the heart, it is a simple glance thrown towards Heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in trial as in joy, in short, it is something great, supernatural, which dilates my soul and unites me to Jesus.
- Jesus does not ask for great actions, but only abandonment and gratitude.
- I assure you that the good Lord is much better than you think. He is content with a glance, with a sigh of love ... For myself, I find perfection very easy to practice, because I understood that there is only one thing to do: take Jesus from the side of the heart.
- Life passes, eternity takes great strides. We will soon live from the life of Jesus himself.
- Jesus, I know well, love is paid only with love, therefore I have sought, I have found relief by making you love for love.
- I don't need to grow, on the contrary it must remain small, that it will become more and more.
Phrases Santa Teresa di Lisieux
- Yes, I found my place in the Church, and this place, my God, you gave it to me! In the heart of my Mother Church, I will be love. So, I will be everything .... and my dream will be fulfilled.
- Holiness does not consist in saying beautiful things, nor does it consist in thinking or hearing them. Holiness consists in suffering and suffering from everything.
- I finally found my vocation, my vocation is love!
- Our Lord takes care of each soul with much love, as if it were the only one to exist.
- I understood that love included all vocations, that love was everything, that embraced all times and all places. In a word that was eternal.
- The good Lord cannot inspire unworkable desires, therefore I can, despite my smallness, aspire to holiness.
- Leaving to the great souls, to the great spirits, the beautiful books that I am not able to understand, and even less, to put into practice, I thank God for being small, since only children
and those who resemble them will be admitted to the heavenly banquet.
- Jesus does not look so much at the magnitude of the actions, nor at their difficulty, but at the love that makes these acts accomplished.
- I understand now that perfect charity consists in enduring the defects of others, not being surprised by their weaknesses, building up the minimum acts of virtue that they practice, but above all I understood that charity must not remain closed at all in the bottom of the heart: Nobody, said Jesus, he lights a torch to put it under a bushel, but puts it on the candlestick to lighten all those who are at home.
- You can't always complain like people who have no hope.
- How easy it is to please Jesus, to kidnap his heart! All you have to do is love it, regardless of yourself, without examining your defects too much.
- A pin collected on the ground with love is enough to save a soul.
- Embrace everyone in my name and tell them everything you can find more kind. Your little Teresa of the Child Jesus.
