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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

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!

Therese of Lisieux
Sweet, Blessed, Giving

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

Therese of Lisieux
Giving, Suffering, Weakness

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

Therese of Lisieux
Giving, Suffering, Chosen

The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.

Therese of Lisieux
Giving, Soul, Honor
St. Therese of Lisieux (2014). “Letters of St. Therese of LIsieux, Volume II: General Correspondence 1890-1897”, p.238, ICS Publications

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.

I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.

Therese of Lisieux
God, Giving, Want
St. Therese of Lisieux (2014). “Letters of St. Therese of Lisieux, Volume I: General Correspondence 1877-1890”, ICS Publications

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

Therese of Lisieux
Love, Giving, Desire

I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others.

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

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.

Therese of Lisieux
Order, Giving, Soul

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.

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

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.

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

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