It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.
THERESE OF LISIEUXAbove the clouds the sky is always blue.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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Love consumes us only in the measure of our self-surrender.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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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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Love 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.
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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 prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
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God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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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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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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.
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Love needs to be proved by action.
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