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.
THERESE OF LISIEUXThe country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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I say nothing to him I love 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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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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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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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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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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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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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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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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