A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
THERESE OF LISIEUXI prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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Look at Him while He is looking at you.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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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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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
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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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For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
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True charity consists in putting up with all one’s neighbors fault’s; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
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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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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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