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.
THERESE OF LISIEUXSilence does good to the soul.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
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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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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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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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How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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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.
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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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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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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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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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