179 Quotes by Therese of Lisieux

If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.

The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

nobody is a good judge in his own cause!

You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.