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I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.

Therese of Lisieux

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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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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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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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The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
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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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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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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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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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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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Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.
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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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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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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much but to ask much of it.
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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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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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