I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
THERESE OF LISIEUXThe guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us – that is all He asks.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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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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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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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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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.
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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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Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
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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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Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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