My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
THERESE OF LISIEUXLook 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.
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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The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
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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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When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
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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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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.
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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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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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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident – in the most audacious way – in His Fatherly goodness.
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The science of loving, yes, that’s the only kind of science I want I’d barter away everything I possess to win it.
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