The science of loving, yes, that’s the only kind of science I want I’d barter away everything I possess to win it.
THERESE OF LISIEUXJesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
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No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
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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 want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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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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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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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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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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Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.
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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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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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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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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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