Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
THERESE OF LISIEUXI felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.
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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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Never stop wanting for your magic.
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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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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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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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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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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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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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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It is love alone that counts.
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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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