Therese of Lisieux Quotes

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

In the way of God, thoughts count very little. Love does it all.

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

The disciple of Jesus gives up all he has, all his goods, because he has found in him the greatest Good from which every other good receives its full value and meaning: family bonds, other relationships, work, cultural and economic goods and so on... The Christian detaches himself from everything and rediscovers all of it in the logic of the Gospel, the logic of love and service.

My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony”, Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.

The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me.

The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

Watch where Jesus went. The one dominant note in His life was to do His Father's will. His was not the way of wisdom or of success, but the way of faithfulness.