Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
THERESE OF LISIEUXMiss 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.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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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 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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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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Never stop wanting for your magic.
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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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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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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
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Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
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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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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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Silence does good to the soul.
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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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Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with 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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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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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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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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