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 LISIEUXTrue charity consists in putting up with all one’s neighbors fault’s; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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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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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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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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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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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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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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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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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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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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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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I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
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Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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