Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
THERESE OF LISIEUXTrials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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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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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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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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Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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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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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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I say nothing to him I love him.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
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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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It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.
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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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