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"He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour."
"May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith."
"As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods."
"There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive."
"No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely."
"Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead."
"The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think."
"Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening."
"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"
"That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself."
"I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today."
"Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill."
"Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!""
"He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building."
"Taste may change, but inclination never."
"You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit."
"It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them"
"It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation."
"a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act."
"Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have."
