How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.
THERESE OF LISIEUXNo harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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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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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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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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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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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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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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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.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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