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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Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
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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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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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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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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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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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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