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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

Therese of Lisieux

Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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God Love Religious
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
Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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Expression Myself Prayer Silence
How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.
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God Happiness Imperfection Mercy Myself Need
(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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God
I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors’defects–not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
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Charity Small True Virtue Weakness
Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Attachment Earth Himself World
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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Children Fear Force God Walk
The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Flower Love Rose Spring Violence White
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
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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Brilliant Count Love Worth
I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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Myself Practice Understand
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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Book Divine Doctor Himself Teaching Word
For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
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Embrace Heart Joy Love Myself Prayer Simplicity
The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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God Heart Love Mom
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Character Goodness Yourself

As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

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