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Nun Inspirational Quotes (405)

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Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow.
Catherine McAuley
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The power of thought is extremely powerful.
Tenzin Palmo
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There are many wonderfully qualified teachers out there, but that doesn't mean that each teacher is suitable to the same person, anymore than people fall in love with the same person.
Tenzin Palmo
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If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.
Ayya Khema
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From the point of view of emptiness, there is neither being nor non-being, but we're not on the point of view of emptiness, we're on the point of view of our relative being.
Tenzin Palmo
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The Church is always in trouble because the Church walks into the trouble in which mankind is trying to resolve itself. There are a lot of areas that need to be addressed. If we were perfect we wouldn't be the Church. I think it's the imperfections that allow people to trust that you're working (toward) something.
Dolores Hart
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We don't want to go to heaven. We want to be reborn so that we can keep going and realize the dharma so we can benefit other beings, endlessly. It's a very different thing.
Tenzin Palmo
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Meditation is a way to take us to a deeper level of awareness.
Tenzin Palmo
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It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.
Mother Angelica
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I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world.
Gemma Galgani
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I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.
Catherine McAuley
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We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Catherine McAuley
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Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!
Hildegard of Bingen
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Love gives a sense of rest.
Janet Erskine Stuart
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We do have the precious opportunity of this human life.
Tenzin Palmo
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The new nuns don't know that they're 'supposed' to be meek and submissive, and so in many ways they believe they can do anything, because they've seen the earlier ones do it. In this way, there's nothing for them to doubt.
Tenzin Palmo
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One has to find a balance. I don't say that when you leave it you forget all about the dharma or practice, but there have to be times when you throw yourself into it, and then there are times when you just relax and realize that wherever you go, you cannot get out of the dharma.
Tenzin Palmo
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I don't think I've changed anything, but I hope that by my talks I have encouraged people in their practice. That's as much as any of us can do.
Tenzin Palmo
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First you have to help yourself.
Tenzin Palmo
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You have to recharge your batteries.
Tenzin Palmo
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We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students.
Tenzin Palmo
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Angels constantly guard the clients of this Blessed Virgin from the assaults of Hell.
Gertrude the Great
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Most of the spiritual traditions were very theistic and the idea of an external god pulling the strings didn't resonate with me. I then discovered Buddhism and found the perfect path. I felt so grateful to the Buddha for having given the path, and not just explaining the end result, but showing so clearly how to get there.
Tenzin Palmo
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Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.
Marie de France
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