Therese of Lisieux
Therese of Lisieux
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, or Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, O.C.D., was a Roman Catholic French Discalced Carmelite nun widely venerated in modern times. She is popularly known as "The Little Flower of Jesus" or simply "The Little Flower"...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSaint
Date of Birth2 January 1873
CountryFrance
jesus hands harm
No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
sweet jesus taste
Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
beautiful children white
At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest details of those sacred hours! The joyful awakening, the reverent and tender embraces of my mistresses and older companions, the room filled with white frocks, like so many snowflakes, where each child was dressed in turn.
god rose showers
I will send a shower of roses.
angel hands
Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?
god jesus our-love
He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.
god soul entering
(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
inspirational heart natural
A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.
prayer sacrifice soul
Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
dream jesus joy
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.
charity weakness virtue
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.
men omnipotence ideas
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
kindness giving thousand
I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...
self done interest
Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.