Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
THERESE OF LISIEUXLet us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors’defects–not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.
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Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.
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The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
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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.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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