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Therese Of Lisieux Inspirational Quotes (94)

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Time is but a shadow, a dream already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.
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The morrow of this day will be eternity then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.
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He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.
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What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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The world's thy ship and not thy home.
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(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God.
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Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?
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If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace flood me. For I have the Host as my support. When I draw near the ciborium, All my sighs are heard... To be nothing is my glory. I am the atom of Jesus.
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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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i can nourish myself on nothing but truth
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I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.
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I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
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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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He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth they make us look higher than this world.
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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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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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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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Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!
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