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You cannot be half a saint you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
Therese of Lisieux
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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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He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
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God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
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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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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.
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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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the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.
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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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In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.
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I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others.
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I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth they make us look higher than this world.
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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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In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.
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Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?
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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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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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