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He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.

Therese of Lisieux

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It is love alone that counts.
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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 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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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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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(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
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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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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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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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What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence...Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately...We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!
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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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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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He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every 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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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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God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
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A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.
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Look at Him while He is looking at you.
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