For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
THERESE OF LISIEUXFor one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
THERESE OF LISIEUXTrials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
THERESE OF LISIEUXI know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors’defects–not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
THERESE OF LISIEUXGod would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
THERESE OF LISIEUXA 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.
THERESE OF LISIEUXThe guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us – that is all He asks.
THERESE OF LISIEUXDiscouragement itself is a form of pride.
THERESE OF LISIEUXMy vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
THERESE OF LISIEUXI want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
THERESE OF LISIEUXIt is love alone that counts.
THERESE OF LISIEUXThe greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
THERESE OF LISIEUXMiss 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.
THERESE OF LISIEUXPerfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
THERESE OF LISIEUXLove needs to be proved by action.
THERESE OF LISIEUXWhose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
THERESE OF LISIEUXPrayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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