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Nun Inspirational Quotes (405)

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Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy.
Tenzin Palmo
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To be a nun is a very great blessing. It's a great inspiration to think that the Sangha goes all the way back to the Buddha and that so many fantastic, really truly-realized beings have been ordained. Thinking of all those members, such a wonderful, exalted and holy order - I love the Sangha.
Tenzin Palmo
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All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
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We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.
Wendy Beckett
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God is everywhere, in the very air I breathe, yes everywhere, but in His Sacrament of the Altar He is as present actually and really as my soul within my body in His Sacrifice daily offered as really as once offered on the Cross
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Remember we are all but travelers here.
Mary MacKillop
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The Sacrament [of the Holy Eucharist] is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces. When the almighty and eternal God comes to us with all the perfection of His thrice holy humanity and His divinity, He surely does not come empty-handed.
Angela of Foligno
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It's unlikely that you were a frog in a past life.
Tenzin Palmo
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The world is full of incredible people who are embodiments of compassion. Some of them have a spiritual path some of them don't.
Tenzin Palmo
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With God there is no need for long speeches.
Jane Frances de Chantal
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We must submit to the Will of God and kiss the hand that strikes us, for we know it is better to suffer in this life than in the next, since one moment of suffering willingly accepted for the love God, is worth an eternity of happiness.
Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Let us never lose courage or despair of God's mercy. We have only to humble ourselves before God in order to obtain grace to become all that we ought to be.
Rose Philippine Duchesne
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This whole world is full of God!
Angela of Foligno
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There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.
Catherine McAuley
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To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.
Tenzin Palmo
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I'm glad that I'm female.
Tenzin Palmo
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Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
Angela Merici
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If you don't find that people find you're easier to live with than you were before, if you don't find that your heart is feeling warmer toward others and if your negative emotions are not getting any better, then there's something wrong. That is always the touchstone of the Dharma practice.
Tenzin Palmo
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The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.
Jane Frances de Chantal
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From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.
Ayya Khema
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If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
Marie de France
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There is a school in Heaven, and there one has only to learn how to love. The school is in the Cenacle the Teacher is Jesus the matter taught is His Flesh and His Blood
Gemma Galgani
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A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
Marie de France
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