Grace, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Sainthood, Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
No, I am not a Saint; I’ve never performed the actions of a Saint. I’m a very little soul upon whom God has bestowed graces; that’s what I am. What I say is the truth; you’ll see this in Heaven.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Sainthood, Spiritual (life), Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
This daring ambition of aspiring to great sanctity has never left me. I don’t rely on my own merits, because I haven’t any; I put all my confidence in Him who is virtue, who is Holiness itself.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Grace, Love (simple acts), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
I always wanted to become a saint…Instead of being discouraged, I told myself that God would not make me wish for something impossible…I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight. It is your arms, Jesus, which are the elevator to carry me to heaven. So there is no need for me to grow up. In fact, just the opposite: I must become less and less.
–Saint Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
Never forget that spiritual and religious ideas are connected less with the head than with the heart, which is the temple of God, and when the heart is filled with the presence of God the head also is enlightened. For the mind and the eyes of the understanding are useless without the true light, as the natural eyes are without daylight.
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)
Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
What God asks is a will which will no longer be divided between Him and any creature, a will pliant in His hands, which neither desires anything nor refuses anything, which wants without reservation everything which He wants, and which never, under any pretext, wants anything which He does not want.
–François Fénèlon (1651-1715)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Repentance, Spiritual (life)
Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked: on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light. And let us remember, for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till He begin to cure them.
–François Fénelon (1651-1715)
