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Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?

Therese of Lisieux

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The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.
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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.
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Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.
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For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair it's a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.
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She is more Mother than Queen.
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I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
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I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.
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I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others.
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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 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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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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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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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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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 great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
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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 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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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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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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