When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
THERESE OF LISIEUXLove consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Never stop wanting for your magic.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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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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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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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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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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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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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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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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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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