The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
THERESE OF LISIEUXI felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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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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Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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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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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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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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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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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
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Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
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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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