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!
THERESE OF LISIEUXLet us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
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How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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The science of loving, yes, that’s the only kind of science I want I’d barter away everything I possess to win it.
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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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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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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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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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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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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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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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