I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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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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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A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.
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Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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It is love alone that counts.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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True charity consists in putting up with all one’s neighbors fault’s; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
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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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I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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