“Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.”
— Thérèse de Lisieux
“That beautiful day passed just as the saddest ones do, since the most radiant of days has a tomorrow.”
— Thérèse de Lisieux
“For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.”
— Thérèse de Lisieux
“I am convinced that one should tell one’s spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell.”
— Thérèse de Lisieux
“Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.”
— Thérèse de Lisieux