The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of 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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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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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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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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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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I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors’defects–not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
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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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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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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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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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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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