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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.

Therese of Lisieux

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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Best Choice Friendship Gift Himself Suffering
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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Brilliant Count Love Worth
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
Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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Compassionate Heart Human Love Ourselves
For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
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Embrace Heart Joy Love Myself Prayer Simplicity
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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Life Place Value Way Worth
Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
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Action Flower Greatness Love Myself Sacrifice
When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.
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Death Earth Goodness Heaven Myself Rose
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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Action Difficult God Greatness Love Yourself
Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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Color Nature Sky
A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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Enough Life Smile Soul Word
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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Charity Small True Virtue Weakness
Never stop wanting for your magic.
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Magic Stop Yourself
Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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God Hands Ourselves Religious
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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Angel Aspiration Justice Peace
The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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God Heart Love Mom
In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
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Alone Difficult Fear God Mom Strength
Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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Interest Selfish Work
My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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Love Myself
For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.
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Heart Heaven Joy Myself Prayer Trouble
I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
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Humble Joy Myself Offering Thinking
Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
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Harmony Small Universe
Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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God Holy Simplicity
Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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Help Learning Myself Person Simplicity
The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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God Greatness Respect Soul
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
It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.
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Enough Evidence Love

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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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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