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Nun Inspirational Quotes (405)

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Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.
Janet Erskine Stuart
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Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life
Marie de France
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Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.
Tenzin Palmo
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Since God wishes it - there is nothing to be done. . . Why should you thus torment yourself? Get rid of whatever He shows you to be an obstacle to His love, for His only desire is that you should live stripped of all that is not Himself.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
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We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is positive. This is how we start to grow up.
Tenzin Palmo
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Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes.
Gertrude the Great
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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.
Marie de France
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Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.
Angela of Foligno
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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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Whether we're in retreat or out in the world, we should try to develop the quality of awareness as much as possible.
Tenzin Palmo
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A lot of people with the purest motivation end up getting completely burned out. And that's because they lack the wisdom and the skill and the inner space.
Tenzin Palmo
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It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as it were, forces God to grant our petition. It deepens the abyss of humility, above all it enkindles the flame of love in the heart hence the Sacrament is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces
Angela of Foligno
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My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
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The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love.
Dolores Hart
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If you go to any nunnery and ask them what the main obstacle is, they'll always say low self-esteem and lack of confidence. It will take time. But the difference between the first girls from Ladakh who became nuns, to the girls we have now, is very encouraging.
Tenzin Palmo
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Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee!
Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Can You see that as soon as the day breaks I think of You? As evening comes, I am near You. I am near You at every moment. I love You, Jesus!
Gemma Galgani
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I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.
Maria Monk
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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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Many people are benefiting beings, but from a dharma point of view, if you are a dharma practitioner, then the first priority is to get yourself together.
Tenzin Palmo
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Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.
Tenzin Palmo
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Believe in the whisperings of God to your own heart.
Mary MacKillop
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Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.
Mother Angelica
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When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.
Tenzin Palmo
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