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He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.

Therese of Lisieux

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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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Never stop wanting for your magic
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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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How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.
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By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.
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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 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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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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Silence does good to the soul.
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True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
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He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.
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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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She is more Mother than Queen.
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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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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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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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