Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
THERESE OF LISIEUXLook at Him while He is looking at you.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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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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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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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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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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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.
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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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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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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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Silence does good to the soul.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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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