A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
THERESE OF LISIEUXA word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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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 say nothing to him I love him.
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I want to give myself totally to Him…I want to live no longer but for Him.
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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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Never stop wanting for your magic.
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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
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Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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True 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.
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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
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