Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
Therese Of LisieuxRead
My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes loving actions without keeping score, focusing on devotion and peace in serving a higher purpose.
Therese of Lisieux expresses her understanding of love in a spiritual context, highlighting that true devotion involves performing acts not for recognition but for the pure joy of loving and serving. She portrays the importance of surrendering oneself to this love, finding peace in the journey of proving that love through actions, regardless of the outcome or recognition.
Themes
LoveDevotionPeaceServiceFaith
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about altruism, one could use this quote to illustrate the power of love-driven actions.
More from Therese Of Lisieux
All quotes →I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
Therese Of LisieuxRead
You heard me, only Friend whom I love. To ravish my heart, you became man. You shed your blood, what a supreme mystery!... And you still live for me on the Altar. If I cannot see the brilliance of your Face Or hear your sweet voice, O my God, I can live by your grace, I can rest on your Sacred Heart!
Therese Of LisieuxRead
Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.
Therese Of LisieuxRead
The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.
Therese Of LisieuxRead
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.
Therese Of LisieuxRead
Similar quotes
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Audrey HepburnRead
It's a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it.
Martha NussbaumRead
And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
Yehuda AmichaiRead
Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.
Jane AustenRead
He who would love much has also much to suffer.
Jose RizalRead
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois De La RochefoucauldRead