The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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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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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Love needs to be proved by action.
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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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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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Silence does good to the 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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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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True charity consists in putting up with all one’s neighbors fault’s; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
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For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.
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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 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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I say nothing to him I love him.
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