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.
THERESE OF LISIEUXFor 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.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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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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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled… yes… the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.
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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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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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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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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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In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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