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She is more Mother than Queen.

Therese of Lisieux

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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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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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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much but to ask much of it.
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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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A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
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(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
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He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.
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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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It is love alone that counts.
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Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
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The morrow of this day will be eternity then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.
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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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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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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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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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The world's thy ship and not thy home.
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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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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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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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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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