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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

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When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
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God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.
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I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
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I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.
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You cannot be half a saint you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
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Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.
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Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
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Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day.
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For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.
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By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.
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The guest of our soul knows our misery He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth they make us look higher than this world.
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O Jesus! on this day, you have fulfilled all my desires. From now on, near the Eucharist, I shall be able To sacrifice myself in silence, to wait for Heaven in peace. Keeping myself open to the rays of the Divine Host, In this furnace of love, I shall be consumed, And like a seraphim, Lord, I shall love You.
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The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
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My soul experienced a peace so sweet, so deep, it would be impossible to express it.
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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
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Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.
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