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"Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive the love of God within and to bring it forth to the world."
"The purpose of all wars, is peace."
"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."
"I'm a firm believer in God himself, but that's as far as I can go. I'm not any denomination. I'm not Catholic or Presbyterian or Baptist or Methodist or Jewish or Muslim. I'm none of those things. And I'm sure that's just fine with God."
"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason."
"In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh."
"Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church."
"Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church."
"In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You."
"God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves."
"If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!"
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
"The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments."
"I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church."
"I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me."
"She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for.""
"Where was Mother Teresa's Jesus? He was in the Bible, in the church, in her prayer, in the Eucharist, in her sisters, in the heart of everyone she met, and especially in the poorest of the poor and the lowest of the low. Jesus was in disguise in each one of them. Jesus was behind the foundation of her order. Jesus was behind all that she did."
"God doesn't ask that we succeed in everything, but that we are faithful. However beautiful our work may be, let us not become attached to it. Always remain prepared to give it up, without losing your peace."
"The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible."
"One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death, although Catholics have their hopes."
