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.
THERESE OF LISIEUXLook 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.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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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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Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
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I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
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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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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
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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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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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Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
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It is love alone that counts.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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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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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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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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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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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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I want to give myself totally to Him…I want to live no longer but for Him.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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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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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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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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