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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.

Therese of Lisieux

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My vocation, at last I have found it my vocation is love.
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the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.
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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
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Never stop wanting for your magic
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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When one loves, one does not calculate.
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The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.
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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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(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!
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I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others.
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