Ifs Quotes by Therese of Lisieux

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Therese of Lisieux’s gentle sanctity shines in nine concise thoughts on “Ifs”. Her reflections carry a quiet devotion, encouraging a tender contemplation of how different choices might align with faith.

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I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if…

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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…

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If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out…

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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…

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If you are willing to bear serenely the trial of being displeasing to yourself, then you will be for Jesus a pleasant…

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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…

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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…

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We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute,…

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I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of…

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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.

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She is more Mother than Queen.

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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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Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

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I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

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I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.

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The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

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It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

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Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident…

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At this time I choseas friends two little girls of my own age; but how shallow are the hearts of creatures! Oneof them had…

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It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

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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…

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