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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

Therese of Lisieux

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He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.
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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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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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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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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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nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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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 world's thy ship and not thy home.
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Never stop wanting for your magic
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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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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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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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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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Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
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God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
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Whose hands are God's hands, but our hands?
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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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I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.
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Apart from the Office [the daily prayer of the Church] which is a daily joy, I do not have the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers. ... Unable either to say them all or to choose between them, I do as a child would who cannot read - I just say what I want to say to God, quite simply, and he never fails to understand.
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