When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.
THERESE OF LISIEUXThe world’s thy ship and not thy home.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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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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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent 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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The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us – that is all He asks.
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No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
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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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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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Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.
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The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
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I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors’defects–not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
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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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