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 LISIEUXWhen we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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The science of loving, yes, that’s the only kind of science I want I’d barter away everything I possess to win it.
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Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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It is love alone that counts.
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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.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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Never stop wanting for your magic.
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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