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He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.

Therese of Lisieux

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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Creation Guide Himself Home Law Natural Poor
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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Death Earth Goodness Heaven Myself Rose
Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Attachment Earth Himself World
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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Action Difficult God Greatness Love Yourself
Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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Born Convertion People Suffering
The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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God Greatness Respect Soul
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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Charity Mistake True Virtue Weakness
Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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God Love Religious
Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
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Harmony Small Universe
Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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Heart Leap Prayer
For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.
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Heart Heaven Joy Myself Prayer Trouble
(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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God
When one loves, one does not calculate.
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Calculation Himself Love
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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Kind Love Myself Science Win
Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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Compassionate Heart Human Love Ourselves
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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Divine God Heart Lose Natural Pure Tender

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