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.
THERESE OF LISIEUXPrayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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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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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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It is love alone that counts.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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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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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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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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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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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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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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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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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
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