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Therese of Lisieux Quotes

French nun and saint (b. 1873), Birth: 2-1-1873, Death: 30-9-1897 Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
Therese of Lisieux

Recall that in the sight of God, nothing is insignificant. Do all deeds with passion.
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Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.
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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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The worth of existence is not contingent upon our station in life. Rather, it relies on the manner in which we inhabit that spot.
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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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Do not squander any opportunity to make a small offering, be it with an amicable expression or an affable utterance; consistently act correctly and do it all out of love.
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Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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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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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
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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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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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Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.
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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.
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If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
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Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe.
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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 does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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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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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Apart from the Office [the daily prayer of the Church] which is a daily joy, I do not have the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers. ... Unable either to say them all or to choose between them, I do as a child would who cannot read - I just say what I want to say to God, quite simply, and he never fails to understand.
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you- for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart... don't listen to the demon, laugh at him, and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace and love.
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For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it's a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.
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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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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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Much later, when I understood what perfection was, I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. I understood that there were many kinds of of sanctity and that each soul was free to respond to the approaches of Our Lord and to do little or much for Him - in other words,to make a choice among the sacrifices He demands.
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We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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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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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.
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How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.
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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.
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I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.
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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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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 one loves, one does not calculate.
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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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How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.
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Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
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You heard me, only Friend whom I love. To ravish my heart, you became man. You shed your blood, what a supreme mystery!... And you still live for me on the Altar. If I cannot see the brilliance of your Face Or hear your sweet voice, O my God, I can live by your grace, I can rest on your Sacred Heart!
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