Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
THERESE OF LISIEUXThe guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us – that is all He asks.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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Look at His adorable face. Look at His glazed and sunken eyes. Look at His wounds. Look Jesus in the Face. There, you will see how He loves us.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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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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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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