Therese of Lisieux Quotes

God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will be exhausted long before God's capacity to give it is strained. The picture of having Christ dwell inside us by faith presents us with compelling and comforting possibilities. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.

Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.

Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a 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.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

I don't tell my children, 'If you're not good, you're going to hell.' I tell my children that God will be there for them when they struggle. That's the God I believe in.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Where love is, there God is also.

Know today that God approves of you. He's pleased with you. He may not always be pleased with your choices or some of the things you do, but when God looks at you, He sees His amazing creation.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

We teach that God's love for His children is infinite.

Love is a spiritual grace. We learn it from God.

It took me a long time to not think of the universe as a judgmental debit-credit system. I haven't completely shaken it, but I no longer think that I am overdrawn with God. Grace is not something you earn; its always there. I find this idea a lot more fun.

God is in my heart; I see God in my daughter and my mother.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.