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All times are dangerous times.
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
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For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.
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Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness His purity shows us our foulness and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you never speak of them, and don't ask about them.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.
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From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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