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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.

Therese of Lisieux

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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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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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Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
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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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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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the storm thunders at my heart I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.
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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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It is love alone that counts.
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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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Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.
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It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.
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The guest of our soul knows our misery He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.
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Look at Him while He is looking at you.
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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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God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.
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He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.
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My vocation, at last I have found it my vocation is love.
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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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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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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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