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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

Therese of Lisieux

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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Creation Guide Himself Home Law Natural Poor
Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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Compassionate Heart Human Love Ourselves
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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Brilliant Count Love Worth
For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
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Embrace Heart Joy Love Myself Prayer Simplicity
Never stop wanting for your magic.
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Magic Stop Yourself
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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Kind Love Opportunity Sacrifice Smile Word
Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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Eyes Goal Heaven Labour Ourselves Peace
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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Humble Joy Myself Offering Thinking
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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Encouragement Future Past Thinking
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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Action Difficult God Greatness Love Yourself
Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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God Holy Simplicity
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Character Goodness Yourself
The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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Home Perspective World
It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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Myself Strength Weakness
The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Flower Love Rose Spring Violence White
Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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Eyes God Inspirational Love Remember Small Yourself

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