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I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others.
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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I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
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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 great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant place of shelter.
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Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
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My vocation, at last I have found it my vocation is love.
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth they make us look higher than this world.
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(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
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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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