Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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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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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Never stop wanting for your magic.
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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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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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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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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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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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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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