We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.


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A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, conv...
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it doesn't matter who it is, and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
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We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so m...
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
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The fruit of faith is love
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Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at...
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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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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
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