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Abbess Inspirational Quotes (43)

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The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it and thirdly to do it because it is his will.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
Hildegard of Bingen
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The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.
Hildegard of Bingen
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Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.
Hildegard of Bingen
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The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
Hildegard of Bingen
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We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace and though we are so weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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I, God, am in your midst. Whoever knows me can never fall. Not in the heights, nor in the depths, nor in the breadths. For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still.
Hildegard of Bingen
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The gate of heaven is very low only the humble can enter it.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
Hildegard of Bingen
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There is the music of Heaven in all things.
Hildegard of Bingen
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A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.
Hildegard of Bingen
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Be attentive to the voice of grace.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How awful those words of unloosing, after thirty years of bondage! I felt as if my chains fell, as those of Saint Peter at the touch of the divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul!
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
Hildegard of Bingen
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When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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