Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
THERESE OF LISIEUXPerfect 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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Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
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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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Look at Him while He is looking at you.
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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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He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.
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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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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is 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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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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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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How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.
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For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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