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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

Therese of Lisieux

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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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Better Choice Feeling God Himself
When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.
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Death Earth Goodness Heaven Myself Rose
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Character Goodness Yourself
When one loves, one does not calculate.
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Calculation Himself Love
Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Attachment Earth Himself World
Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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Goodness Himself Judgement
My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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Love 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
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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Encouragement Evidence Goodness Love People Perfection Quality Weakness
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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Best Forget Greatness Myself Suffering
No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
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God Hands Harm Perspective See
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 give myself totally to Him…I want to live no longer but for Him.
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Dedication Himself Live Myself
Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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Help Learning Myself Person Simplicity
I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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Myself Practice Understand
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
Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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God Love Religious
Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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Compassionate Heart Human Love Ourselves
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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Angel Aspiration Justice Peace
If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
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Forget Future Impossible Live Moments Myself Past Simplicity
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Flower Lose Love Rose
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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Creation Guide Himself Home Law Natural Poor
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.
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Awake Dreams Greatness Life Limitation Ourselves Suffering Wasted Time
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
Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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Love Space Time Universe
The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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God Heart Love Mom
Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident – in the most audacious way – in His Fatherly goodness.
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Audacity God Goodness Heart Holy Humble Ourselves Weakness

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