For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
THERESE OF LISIEUXLet us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is 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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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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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I say nothing to him I love him.
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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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Love needs to be proved by action.
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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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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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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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The science of loving, yes, that’s the only kind of science I want I’d barter away everything I possess to win it.
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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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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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