Silence does good to the soul.
THERESE OF LISIEUXI prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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The science of loving, yes, that’s the only kind of science I want I’d barter away everything I possess to win it.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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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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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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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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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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Never stop wanting for your magic.
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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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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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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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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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Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled… yes… the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.
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