I want to give myself totally to Him…I want to live no longer but for Him.
THERESE OF LISIEUXThe greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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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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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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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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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
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Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
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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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Love needs to be proved by action.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about 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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