Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
THERESE OF LISIEUXSufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Look 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.
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If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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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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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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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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Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.
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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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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
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God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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