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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

Therese of Lisieux

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He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.
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Himself Willing Worth
(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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God
Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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Expression Myself Prayer Silence
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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Awake Dreams Greatness Life Limitation Ourselves Suffering Wasted Time
Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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Compassionate Heart Human Love Ourselves
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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Angel Aspiration Justice Peace
As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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Divine Flower Illumination Shine Small Soul Sun
Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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Best Choice Friendship Gift Himself Suffering
In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
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Alone Difficult Fear God Mom Strength
You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Character Goodness Yourself
Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident – in the most audacious way – in His Fatherly goodness.
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Audacity God Goodness Heart Holy Humble Ourselves Weakness
I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
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Humble Joy Myself Offering Thinking
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
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
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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Action Difficult God Greatness Love Yourself
I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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Better Choice Feeling God Himself
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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Children Fear Force God Walk
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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Empty Himself Misery Soul
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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Encouragement Future Past Thinking
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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Book Divine Doctor Himself Teaching Word
Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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Encouragement Pride
Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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God Holy Simplicity
I want to give myself totally to Him…I want to live no longer but for Him.
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Dedication Himself Live Myself
Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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Himself Perfection Willing
If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
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Forget Future Impossible Live Moments Myself Past Simplicity
Silence does good to the soul.
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Goodness One Liner Silence Soul
I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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Myself Practice Understand

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