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.
THERESE OF LISIEUXFrequently, only silence can express my prayer.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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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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How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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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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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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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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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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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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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It is love alone that counts.
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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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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