(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
THERESE OF LISIEUXWithout love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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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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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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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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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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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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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
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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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I say nothing to him I love him.
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Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
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What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence…Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately…We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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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For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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The science of loving, yes, that’s the only kind of science I want I’d barter away everything I possess to win it.
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Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.
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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 world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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I want to give myself totally to Him…I want to live no longer but for Him.
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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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