Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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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No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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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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Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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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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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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Silence does good to the soul.
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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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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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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 want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
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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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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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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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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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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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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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