If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
THERESE OF LISIEUXLook at Him while He is looking at you.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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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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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.
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Never stop wanting for your magic.
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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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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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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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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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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
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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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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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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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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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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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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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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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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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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