Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which


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If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to...
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Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
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The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
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To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
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Good works are links that form a chain of love.
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What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.
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Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
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Facing the media is more difficult than bathing a leper.
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Intense love does not measure; it just gives
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It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
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There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
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It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time...
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Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile
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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.
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I think I'm more difficult than critical.
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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
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You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You ...
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There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.
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The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be w...
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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv...
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We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things...
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Love begins by taking care of the closest ones-the ones at home.
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It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easie...
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We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
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I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe t...
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the ...
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In the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the crippled, of the homeless, of the blind, in their na...
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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. The r...
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I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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What I do you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, includin...
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
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Peace begins with a smile.
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a bro...
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Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand.
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
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It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
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We are all pencils in the hand of God.
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I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha...
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We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
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If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
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It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
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The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in...
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Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and becau...
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Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless
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Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac...
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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
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I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
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I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one perso...
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Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love wit...
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We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
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We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in lo...
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Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call...
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