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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

Matthew Kelly

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The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.
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The way we see the world determines the way we live our lives
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Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation. There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation.
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Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
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Your weaknesses are the key to the unimaginable bigger future that God has envisioned for you. Your strengths are probably already bearing all the fruit they can. They will continue to bear those good fruits in your life, but at some point they will begin to plateau. Your richer, more abundant future is intimately linked to your weaknesses.
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We become the books we read.
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Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.
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Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
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Our lives change when our habits change.
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Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.
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When you voice your disagreement, begin by talking about what you have in common with the person you are arguing with. Too often we rush to judgment, race to argue, and overlook all the common ground we share.
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On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.
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Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.
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Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.
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God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.
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We are not here to solve the problems the problems are here to solve us.
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