The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
THERESE OF LISIEUXJesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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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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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 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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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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It is love alone that counts.
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He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.
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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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It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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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