I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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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Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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.
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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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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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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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A 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.
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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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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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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
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Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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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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