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Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.

Therese of Lisieux

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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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Adorable Eyes Face Himself Wound
I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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Dreams God Myself Religious Shine
The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Flower Love Rose Spring Violence White
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.
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Embrace Heart Joy Love Myself Prayer Simplicity
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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Heart Heaven Joy Myself Prayer Trouble
God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
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Desire God Hope Inspirational Myself
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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Charity Small True Virtue Weakness
The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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God Heart Love Mom
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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Charity Mistake True Virtue Weakness
Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Attachment Earth Himself World
The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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God Greatness Respect Soul
I say nothing to him I love him.
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Dedication God Himself Love
Love needs to be proved by action.
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Action Love Need One Liner
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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Empty Himself Misery Soul
Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
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Better Prayer Sacrifice Soul Touch Word
I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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Better Choice Feeling God Himself
Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
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Harmony Small Universe
Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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Encouragement Pride
A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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Enough Life Smile Soul Word
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Character Goodness Yourself
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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Angel Aspiration Justice Peace
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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Encouragement Future Past Thinking
Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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Eyes Goal Heaven Labour Ourselves Peace
Silence does good to the soul.
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Goodness One Liner Silence Soul
Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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Love Space Time Universe
It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.
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Enough Evidence Love
As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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Divine Flower Illumination Shine Small Soul Sun

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