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My vocation, at last I have found it my vocation is love.

Therese of Lisieux

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Silence does good to the soul.
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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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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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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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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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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 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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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 greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much but to ask much of it.
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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
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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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If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace flood me. For I have the Host as my support. When I draw near the ciborium, All my sighs are heard... To be nothing is my glory. I am the atom of Jesus.
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Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled... yes... the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.
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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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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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Never stop wanting for your magic
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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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