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• i can nourish myself on nothing but truth

  Therese of Lisieux

  I Can

  Therese of Lisieux (2016). “St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Her Last Conversations”, p.134, ICS Publications

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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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Sacrifice, Love Is

  Marc Foley, OCD, St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux Study Edition”, ICS Publications

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• I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Grace, Soul, Doe

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• Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Heart, Peaceful

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• The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Inspire, Desire, Unattainable

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• The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Sacrifice, 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?

  Therese of Lisieux

  Mother, Religious, Joy

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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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Heart, Holy Eucharist

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• It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Heaven, Soul, Golden

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.72, TAN Books

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• O Jesus! on this day, you have fulfilled all my desires. From now on, near the Eucharist, I shall be able To sacrifice myself in silence, to wait for Heaven in peace. Keeping myself open to the rays of the Divine Host, In this furnace of love, I shall be consumed, And like a seraphim, Lord, I shall love You.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Love You, Sacrifice

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• I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Life, Heaven, Earth

  Therese of Lisieux (2016). “St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Her Last Conversations”, ICS Publications

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• 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,
  Jesus, which are the lift to carry me to heaven, And so there is no need for me to grow up. In fact, just the opposite: I must stay little and become less and less.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Growing Up, Mean

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• Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love Is, Catholic, Crosses

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• Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Holy, Communion, Holy Communion

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• He longs to give us a magnificent reward. He knows that suffering is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself, and to become ourselves divine.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Mean, Giving, Suffering

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.227, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Acceptance, Goal, Joy

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.80, ICS Publications

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• It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Father, Two

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• I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Courage, Fighting, May

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• At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four years, who at play has got its hair tossed and its clothes soiled. These misfortunes have befallen me in battling with souls. But very soon the Blessed Virgin hastens to my aid: quickly, she takes off my dirty little pinafore, smoothes my hair and adorns it with a pretty ribbon or simply with a little flower... and this suffices to render me pleasing and enables me to sit at the Banquet of Angels without blushing.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Children, Dirty, Flower

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.73, TAN Books

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• Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Drunk, Joy

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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.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spiritual, Mean, Winning

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.20, TAN Books

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• God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Giving, Desire

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• You heard me, only Friend whom I love. To ravish my heart, you became man. You shed your blood, what a supreme mystery!... And you still live for me on the Altar. If I cannot see the brilliance of your Face Or hear your sweet voice, O my God, I can live by your grace, I can rest on your Sacred Heart!

  Therese of Lisieux

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “The Poetry of St. Therese of Lisieux: The Complete Edition”, p.114, ICS Publications

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• For me to love you, Jesus, as you love me, I would have to borrow your own love and then only would I be at rest.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Love You

  Marc Foley, OCD, St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux Study Edition”, ICS Publications

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• Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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