Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
THERESE OF LISIEUXTrials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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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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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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Look at His adorable face. Look at His glazed and sunken eyes. Look at His wounds. Look Jesus in the Face. There, you will see how He loves us.
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The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
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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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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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It is love alone that counts.
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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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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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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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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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My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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