No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
THERESE OF LISIEUXLove consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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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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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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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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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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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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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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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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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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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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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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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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