It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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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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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Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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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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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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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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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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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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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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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
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