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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.

Therese of Lisieux

Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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Encouragement Pride
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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Creation Guide Himself Home Law Natural Poor
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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Children Fear Force God Walk
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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Action Flower Greatness Love Myself Sacrifice
Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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Best Choice Friendship Gift Himself Suffering
It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.
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Enough Evidence Love
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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Convertion Ecstasy Love Pin Sacrifice Soul
It is love alone that counts.
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Alone Count Love One Liner
No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
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God Hands Harm Perspective See
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Character Goodness Yourself
The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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God Greatness Respect Soul
Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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Himself Perfection Willing
Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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Love Space Time Universe
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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Divine God Heart Lose Natural Pure Tender
Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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Eyes God Inspirational Love Remember Small Yourself
Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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God Holy Simplicity

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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