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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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The world's thy ship and not thy home.
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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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The morrow of this day will be eternity then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
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Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?
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Silence does good to the soul.
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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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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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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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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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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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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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i can nourish myself on nothing but truth
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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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(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
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Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.
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Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.
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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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