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.
THERESE OF LISIEUXWhose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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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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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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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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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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The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.
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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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