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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.

Therese of Lisieux

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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 greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much but to ask much of 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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Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.
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Never stop wanting for your magic
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O Jesus! on this day, you have fulfilled all my desires. From now on, near the Eucharist, I shall be able To sacrifice myself in silence, to wait for Heaven in peace. Keeping myself open to the rays of the Divine Host, In this furnace of love, I shall be consumed, And like a seraphim, Lord, I shall love You.
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Receive Communion often, very often...there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.
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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.
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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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How I loved the feasts!.... I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for me to throw flowers beneath the feet of God!... I was never so happy as when I saw my roses touch the sacred Monstrance.
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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.
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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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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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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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You cannot be half a saint you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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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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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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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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