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In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.

Therese of Lisieux

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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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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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