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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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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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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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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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For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.
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She is more Mother than Queen.
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God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
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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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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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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
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He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.
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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.
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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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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
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It is love alone that counts.
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My vocation, at last I have found it my vocation is love.
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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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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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I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.
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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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If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
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