Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
THERESE OF LISIEUXThe 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.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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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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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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I want to give myself totally to Him…I want to live no longer but for Him.
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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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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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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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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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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident – in the most audacious way – in His Fatherly goodness.
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