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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

Therese of Lisieux

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Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
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True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
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It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.
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i can nourish myself on nothing but truth
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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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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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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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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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It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.
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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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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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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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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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It is love alone that counts.
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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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