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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.

Therese of Lisieux

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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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The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.
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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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Look at Him while He is looking at 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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The guest of our soul knows our misery He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.
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You heard me, only Friend whom I love. To ravish my heart, you became man. You shed your blood, what a supreme mystery!... And you still live for me on the Altar. If I cannot see the brilliance of your Face Or hear your sweet voice, O my God, I can live by your grace, I can rest on your Sacred Heart!
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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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The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.
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God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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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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