You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
THERESE OF LISIEUXPrayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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True charity consists in putting up with all one’s neighbors fault’s; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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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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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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