Therese of Lisieux Quotes About Giving
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God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
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You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen you, and to give you all that is wanting to you.
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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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I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others.
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I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.
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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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When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift.
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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 greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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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.
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He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this agony from us. He needs it for souls and for our soul... Alas, it does pain Him to give us sorrows to drink, but He knows this is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself and to become God's ourselves.
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Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!
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My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.
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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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