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Love turns work into rest.
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Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
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I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.
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We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
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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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The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it.
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Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.
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The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.
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Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them and hold fast to God, Who does not change.
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Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you / All things are passing: / God never changes.
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How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
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It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
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Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.
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