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 LISIEUXFor one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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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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I want to give myself totally to Him…I want to live no longer but for Him.
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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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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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Silence does good to the soul.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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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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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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The 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.
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Look at Him while He is looking at you.
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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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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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I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.
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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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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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What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence…Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately…We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!
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