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 LISIEUXPrayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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True charity consists in putting up with all one’s neighbors fault’s; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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 am very far from practicing what I understand.
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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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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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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
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