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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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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth they make us look higher than this world.
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Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!
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I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
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Receive Communion often, very often...there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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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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(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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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
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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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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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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
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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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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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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
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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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The guest of our soul knows our misery He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.
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