Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
THERESE OF LISIEUXA word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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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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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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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 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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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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Silence does good to the soul.
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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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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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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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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