#St. Therese of Lisieux AJD

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"Without sacrifice there is no love." - St. Maximilian Kolbe

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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.

St. Therese of Lisieux (Holiness In The Ordinary, Pg. 76)

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"Some give by going to the missions. Some go by giving to the missions. Without both there is no mission" - Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

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The Story Of A Soul, Pg. 175

“My sufferings are very intense indeed, yet nevertheless I am extraordinarily at peace.  All my desires are realized and I am full of confidence.”

“Love alone counts.”

“The chalice, Mother is full to overflowing.  I could not have believed one could bear so much and can explain it only by my great desire to save souls.  Thy will be done, My God, but have mercy on me; sweet Virgin Mary, aid me.

All I have written about my thirst for suffering is quite true; I do not regret surrendering myself to Love.

I do not which to suffer less.  Oh, how I love Him!  My God I love Thee.”

Gazing beyond the stature of Mary beside her bed, her eyes alight with supernatural joy, she died.

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"I desire neither death nor life. I would not choose even if Our Lord were to give me the choice. I will only what He wills, and it is what He does that pleases me. I do not fear the last struggle nor any pain involved in my illness, however severe." - St. Therese Of Lisieux

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"A peace that nothing can disturb reigns in its depths." - St. Therese Of Lisieux

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"It has come to this, that I can no longer suffer because all suffering is sweet." - St. Therese Of Lisieux

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The Story Of A Soul, Pg. 166

I love You, Jesus!  I love Mother Church, and I never forget that “the least act of pure love is of more value to her than all other works put together.”

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The Story Of A Soul, Pg. 165

My heart does not yearn for riches or for glory, not even the glory of Heaven; that belongs by rights to my brothers, the Angels and Saints.  Mine will be the reflection of that glory which shines up my Mother’s brow.

No! what I ask for is love.  Only one thing, my Jesus, to love You.

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The Story Of A Soul, Pg. 163

Charity gave me the key to my vocation.

I saw that all vocations are summed up in love and that love is all in all, embracing every time and place because it is eternal.

In a transport of ecstatic joy I cried: “Jesus, my Love, I have at last found my vocation; it is love!  I have found my place in the Church’s heart, the place You Yourself have given me, my God.  Yes, there in the heart of Mother Church I will be love; so shall I be all things, so shall my dreams come true.”

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The Story Of A Soul, Pg. 158

Jesus has chosen to show me the only way which leads to the Divine Furnace of love; is is the way of childlike self-surrender, the way of a child who sleeps, afraid of nothing, in its father’s arms.

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The Story Of A Soul, Pg. 158

... For Jesus does not ask for glorious deeds.  He asks only for self-surrender and for gratitude.

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The Story Of A Soul, Pg. 153

“Give me a fulcrum,” said Archimedes, “and with a lever I will move the world.”  He was asking the impossible, and yet this is just what the Saints have been given.  Their fulcrum is none other than Almighty God Himself; their lever, prayer, the prayer which enkindles the fire of love.  It is with this lever that they have uplifted the world, and with this lever those who are still fighting in the world will go on raising it until the End of Time.

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The Story Of A Soul, Pg. 153

This is just what I ask.  I want Jesus so to draw me into the flames of His love, so to make me one with Himself that He may live and act in me.  I feel that the more the fire of love inflames my heart, the more I shall say, “Draw me,” and the more swiftly those who are around about me will run “in the sweet odor of the Beloved.”

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"Draw me." - St. Therese Of Lisieux

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The Story Of A Soul, Pg. 151

You know, my God, that my one desire has ever been to love You alone; Your glory has been my one ambition.  Your love has gone before me from the days of my childhood; it has grown with me, and now it is an abyss so deep that I cannot sound it.