Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
THERESE OF LISIEUXI realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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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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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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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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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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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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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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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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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
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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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True charity consists in putting up with all one’s neighbors fault’s; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
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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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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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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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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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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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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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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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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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Look at His adorable face. Look at His glazed and sunken eyes. Look at His wounds. Look Jesus in the Face. There, you will see how He loves us.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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