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.
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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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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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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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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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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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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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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
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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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I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
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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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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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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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