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Silence does good to the soul.

Therese of Lisieux

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Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!
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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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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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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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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much but to ask much of it.
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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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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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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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I 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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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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It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.
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And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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the storm thunders at my heart I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.
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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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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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(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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