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

Therese of Lisieux

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nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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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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What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence...Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately...We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!
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Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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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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My vocation, at last I have found it my vocation is love.
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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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In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
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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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How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.
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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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A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.
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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
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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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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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