A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
THERESE OF LISIEUXIn trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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Look at Him while He is looking at you.
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When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
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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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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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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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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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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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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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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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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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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us – that is all He asks.
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It is love alone that counts.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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