My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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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In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
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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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Look at Him while He is looking at you.
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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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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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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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 want to give myself totally to Him…I want to live no longer but for Him.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence…Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately…We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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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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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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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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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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I say nothing to him I love him.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself.
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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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