Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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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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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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
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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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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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I say nothing to him I love 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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For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.
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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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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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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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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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Never stop wanting for your magic.
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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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