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- I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
- (Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I…
- The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.
- You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen…
- True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his…
- In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in…
- It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.
- Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
- If I am despised by the world, If it considers me as nothing, A divine peace flood me. For I have the Host as my…
- 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…
- At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest details of those…
- Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on earth You knew to veil…
- You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all.
- Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs…
- My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when…
- Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and…
- Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
- Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God alone remains.
- At this time I choseas friends two little girls of my own age; but how shallow are the hearts of creatures! Oneof them had to…
- Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at…
- I have not the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers. . . Unable either to say them all or choose between them, I…
- Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to…
- I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
- And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may…
- I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen…
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