I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
THERESE OF LISIEUXI say nothing to him I love him.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
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Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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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Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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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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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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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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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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