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It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.

Therese of Lisieux

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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Country Lying Myself Native
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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Creation Guide Himself Home Law Natural Poor
Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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God Holy Simplicity
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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Divine God Heart Lose Natural Pure Tender
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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God Heart Life Moments Offend Passion Wound
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Character Goodness Yourself
I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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Dreams God Myself Religious Shine
Look at Him while He is looking at you.
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God Himself Yourself
No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
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God Hands Harm Perspective See
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Flower Lose Love Rose
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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Best Forget Greatness Myself Suffering
Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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Goodness Himself Judgement
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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Charity Small True Virtue Weakness
For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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Endurance Forever God Oneself Pain
Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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Encouragement Pride
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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Death Earth Goodness Heaven Myself Rose

It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.

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