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The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.

Therese of Lisieux

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God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.
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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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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 good God would not inspire unattainable desires.
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Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.
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If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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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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How I loved the feasts!.... I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for me to throw flowers beneath the feet of God!... I was never so happy as when I saw my roses touch the sacred Monstrance.
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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 am very far from practicing what I understand.
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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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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.
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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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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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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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In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.
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