Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
THERESE OF LISIEUXMy vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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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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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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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
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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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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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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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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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The science of loving, yes, that’s the only kind of science I want I’d barter away everything I possess to win it.
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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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Silence does good to the soul.
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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 give myself totally to Him…I want to live no longer but for Him.
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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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