black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.

Therese of Lisieux

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!
THERESE OF LISIEUX

God Heart Life Moments Offend Passion Wound
As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
THERESE OF LISIEUX

Divine Flower Illumination Shine Small Soul Sun
Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
THERESE OF LISIEUX

Born Convertion People Suffering
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

Creation Guide Himself Home Law Natural Poor
You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.
THERESE OF LISIEUX

Action Difficult God Greatness Love Yourself
A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
THERESE OF LISIEUX

Enough Life Smile Soul Word
Silence does good to the soul.
THERESE OF LISIEUX

Goodness One Liner Silence Soul
Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
THERESE OF LISIEUX

God Holy Simplicity
The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
THERESE OF LISIEUX

Life Place Value Way Worth
I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
THERESE OF LISIEUX

Better Choice Feeling God Himself
I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors’defects–not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
THERESE OF LISIEUX

Charity Small True Virtue Weakness
My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
THERESE OF LISIEUX

Love Myself
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

Kind Love Myself Science Win
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

Country Lying Myself Native
For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
THERESE OF LISIEUX

Endurance Forever God Oneself Pain
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.
THERESE OF LISIEUX

Audacity God Goodness Heart Holy Humble Ourselves Weakness

Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Therese of Lisieux Quotes