I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
THERESE OF LISIEUXWhen one loves, one does not calculate.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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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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Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.
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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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How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.
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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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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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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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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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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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