For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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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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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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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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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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I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
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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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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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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
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My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
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When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.
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