When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
THERESE OF LISIEUXYou 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.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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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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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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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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A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.
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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
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