Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
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.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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It is love alone that counts.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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I want to give myself totally to Him…I want to live no longer but for Him.
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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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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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No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
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What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence…Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately…We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!
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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.
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Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
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