Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
THERESE OF LISIEUXLove proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled… yes… the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
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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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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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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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It is love alone that counts.
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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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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