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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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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth they make us look higher than this world.
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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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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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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 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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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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The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.
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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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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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What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.
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nobody is a good judge in his own cause!
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Time is but a shadow, a dream already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.
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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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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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We must do everything we are obliged to do give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.
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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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