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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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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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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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In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.
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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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Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.
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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
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My vocation, at last I have found it my vocation is love.
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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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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth they make us look higher than this world.
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Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day.
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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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The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.
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We must do everything we are obliged to do give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.
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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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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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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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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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Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.
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