It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
THERESE OF LISIEUXDo 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.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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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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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us – that is all He asks.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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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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When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.
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Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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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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For 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.
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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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It is love alone that counts.
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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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