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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.

Therese of Lisieux

Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
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Harmony Small Universe
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Flower Lose Love Rose
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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Encouragement Future Past Thinking
What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence…Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately…We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!
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God Heart Life Moments Offend Passion Wound
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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Angel Aspiration Justice Peace
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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Divine God Heart Lose Natural Pure Tender
He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.
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Himself Willing Worth
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
My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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Love Myself
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
Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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Interest Selfish Work
The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
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Country Lying Myself Native
Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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God Hands Ourselves Religious
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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Book Divine Doctor Himself Teaching Word
Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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Eyes Goal Heaven Labour Ourselves Peace
Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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Consumption Love Measurement Ourselves Surrender

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