Marie Thérèse Martin was born at Alencon, France on Jan. 2, 1873. St Thérèse of Lisieux is the patron saint of florists, missionaries, pilots and against tuberculosis.
St. Thérèse felt called into the religious life at the age of 15. She asked permission to enter the Carmel of Lisieux a Carmelite convent. She took the name of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face.
St. Thérèse came down with tuberculosis and died after several years of suffering at the age of 24 on Sept. 30, 1897. She was canonized in 1925. Her Feast Day is celebrated on October 1.
Popularly known as the Little Flower, Thérèse of Lisieux was canonized in 1925. On October 19, 1997, Pope John Paul II bestowed on her the title of Doctor of the Church.
The following quotes can inspire us to follow her “Little Way”.
1. Use the gifts you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.
St. Thérèseof Lisieux
2. When you are angry with someone, the way to find peace is to pray for that person and ask God to reward him or her for making you suffer.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
3. Let us not grow tired of prayer: Confidence works miarcles.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
4. Jesus help me to simplify my life by learning what You want me to be and becoming that person.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
5. He guides and inspires me every moment of the day. Just when I need it, a new light shines on my problem.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
6. Hoiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
7. I will spend my Heaven ding good upon earth. I will let fall a shower of roses.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
8. What pleases the good God in my little soul is to see me love my littleness and my poverty, it is seeing the blind trust that I have in His Mercy.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
9. I beseech Thee, my Jesus, to send me some humiliation every time that I shall attempt to put myself above others.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
10. Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
11. Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
12. I understand that without LOVE even the most brilliant deeds count as nothing. These gifts, which Our Lord lavished upon me, far from doing me any harm, drew me towards Him; I saw that He alone is unchangeable. He alone can fill the vast abyss of my desires.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
13. Only God can see what is in the bottom of our hearts; we are half-blind.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
14. God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so, in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
15. I say an ‘Our Father’ or a ‘Halil Mary’ when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worthwhie thought.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
16. Jesus has chosen to show me the only way which leads to the Divine Furnace of love; it is the way of childlike self-surrender, the way of a child who sleeps, afraid of nothing, in its father’s arms.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
17. Do not climb the difficult stairs of fear to God. Take the comfortable elevator of love.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
18. Everything is grace; everything is the direct effect of our Father’s love. Everything is grace because everything is God’s gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events-to the heart that loves, all is well.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
19. You returned to Your realm of light and still remain hidden here to nourish us, in our vale of tears, with Holy Communion.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
20. It isn’t enough to love: We must prove it.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
21. The Rosary is a long chain that links heaven and earth. One end of it is in our hand and the other end is in the hands of the Holy Virgin. The Rosary prayer rises like incense to the feet of the Almighty.
St. Therese of Lisieux
22. My little way is the way of spiritual childhood, the way of trust and absolute self-surrender.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
23. For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look toward heaven; it is a cry of recognition and love; embracing both trial and joy.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
24. Kneeling before the tabernacle, I can think of only one thing to say to Our Lord: My God, You know that I love You! And I feel that my prayer does not weary Jesus; knowing my weakness He is satisfied with my Good Will.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
25. You cannot be Half a Saint; You must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
St. Therese of Lisieux
