If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
THERESE OF LISIEUXHe 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.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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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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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.
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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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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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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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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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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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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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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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