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Thérèse of Lisieux
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“It is love alone that counts.”
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“Love needs to be proved by action.”
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“When we yield to discouragement or despair, it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.”
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“That shall be my life, to scatter flowers — to miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word, always doing the tiniest things right, and doing it for love.”
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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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“... nobody is a good judge in his own cause!”
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“For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it's a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.”
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“Prayer is, for me, an outburst from the heart; it is a simple glance darted upwards to Heaven; it is a cry of gratitude and of love in the midst of trial as in the midst of joy! In a word, it is something exalted, supernatural, which dilates the soul and unites it to God.”
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“Nothing's done well when it's done out of self-interest.”
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“Love breeds love ...”
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“Love alone matters.”
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“All is grace.”
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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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“... love is repaid by love alone ...”
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“I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...”
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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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“[According to various translators:] The world/ Time/Life is your ship, not your home.”
Thérèse of Lisieux, French mystic, diarist, Roman Catholic saint
(1873 - 1897)