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Nun Inspirational Quotes (402)

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With love in our hearts, there is nothing we cannot overcome.
Cheng Yen
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Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.
Angela of Foligno
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O my soul, how can you refrain from plunging yourself ever deeper and deeper into the love of Christ, who did not forget you in life or in death, but who willed to give Himself wholly to you, and to unite you to Himself forever?
Angela of Foligno
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Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory.
Angela Merici
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We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
Angela Merici
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Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.
Angela Merici
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Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called you will not desert you, but the moment you are in need he will stretch out his saving hand.
Angela Merici
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The more I reflect on the graces I have received, the more they astonish me and make me tremble.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
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When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.
Tenzin Palmo
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You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.
Andrea Jaeger
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The mission of the media is to reflect the community to itself, to give the people a vision of who they are, what they're doing, what they want, what they need. I think motion pictures have been an incredible gift to humanity. I can't imagine living in a world without them.
Dolores Hart
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There is an enormous joy and satisfaction in doing what you really want to do and are best fitted to do. When it all comes together like that, it gives you a wonderful sense of well-being and satisfaction knowing that you have been doing what you were intended to do for this lifetime.
Tenzin Palmo
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Sustain a bright and joyful spirit.
Cornelia Connelly
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A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.
Wendy Beckett
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There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
Wendy Beckett
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Many people don't understand the difference between a vocation and your own idea about something. A vocation is a call-one you don't necessarily want. The only thing I ever wanted to be was an actress. But I was called by God.
Dolores Hart
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Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
Jean O'Leary
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O Eternal God, now may it please you to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love you felt when you begot your Son at the first dawn before all creation. And consider this need which falls upon us, take it from us for the sake of your Son, and lead us to the joy of your salvation.
Hildegard of Bingen
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Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.
Marie de France
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Life can be seen through your eyes but it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.
Mary Xavier Mehegan
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Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.
Maria Monk
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Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it.
Tenzin Palmo
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I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
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I've always loved the Sangha. I have the deepest, deepest respect for them. I'm very sorry that in the West people don't appreciate what the monastic order is about.
Tenzin Palmo
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