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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.

Therese of Lisieux

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Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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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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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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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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My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
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How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.
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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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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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Best Forget Greatness Myself Suffering
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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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.
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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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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled… yes… the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.
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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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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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It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.
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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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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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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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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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