Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
THERESE OF LISIEUXLove consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Silence does good to the soul.
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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
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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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The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
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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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Look at Him while He is looking at you.
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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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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
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