When one loves, one does not calculate.
THERESE OF LISIEUXFor 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.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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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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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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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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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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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.
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