God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a saint. It is impossible for me to grow bigger, so I put up with myself as I am, with all my countless faults. But I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight, a little way that is quite new[...] It is your arms,

Therese of Lisieux

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Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.

Therese of Lisieux

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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

Therese of Lisieux

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The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

Therese of Lisieux

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Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.

Therese of Lisieux

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My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

Therese of Lisieux

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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.

Therese of Lisieux

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Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.

Therese of Lisieux

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Silence does good to the soul.

Therese of Lisieux

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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

Therese of Lisieux

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You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

Therese of Lisieux

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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.

Therese of Lisieux

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When one loves, one does not calculate.

Therese of Lisieux

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You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.

Therese of Lisieux

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Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

Therese of Lisieux

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Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.

Therese of Lisieux

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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.

Therese of Lisieux

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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.

Therese of Lisieux

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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

Therese of Lisieux

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Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

Therese of Lisieux

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Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

Therese of Lisieux

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