Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
THERESE OF LISIEUXGod would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
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Look at Him while He is looking at you.
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is 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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The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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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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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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Love needs to be proved by action.
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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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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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It is love alone that counts.
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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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