Therese of Lisieux Quotes

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.

I'm just waiting for God to tell me what to do, but whatever it is, I want to be doing something like I am doing now-serving God and helping people.

Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.

I must consider myself as the man of the cross and love the one that God gives me without thinking any further.

Sometimes, the plans in your heart aren't God's plan.

There are things that are more important than my personal happiness.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else.

Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?

The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.

I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

If you will focus on meeting other people’s needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

The Bible says that when we obey God’s commands, we benefit. I think we naturally assume that if we look out for our own interests and concerns, we will be happy. But people who sacrifice for others will tell you that seasons of giving are the most rewarding of their lives.

If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.