The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us – that is all He asks.
THERESE OF LISIEUXJesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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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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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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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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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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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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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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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
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