The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
THERESE OF LISIEUXAs the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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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I say nothing to him I love him.
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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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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
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Look at His adorable face. Look at His glazed and sunken eyes. Look at His wounds. Look Jesus in the Face. There, you will see how He loves us.
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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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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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