"We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time."
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"God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist."
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"The more you forget yourself, the more Jesus will think of you."
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"Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy."
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"My mother and sister must be very happy to be home with God, and I am sure their love and prayers are always with me. When I go home to God, for death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity."
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"A Mother is the heart of the home"
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"Spread your love wherever you go."
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"Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others."
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"People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted."
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"It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself."
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"Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy."
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"Conversion is not only changing the faith. Conversion is changing the heart and working over there is the grace of God. Then only comes the question of change of faith. Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets."
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"God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important."
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"Christ prays in me, Christ works in me, Christ thinks in me, Christ looks through my eyes, Christ speaks through my words, Christ works with my hands, Christ walks with my feet, Christ loves with my heart. As St Paul's prayer was: I belong to Christ and nothing will separate me from the love of Christ. It was that oneness, oneness with God in the Holy Spirit."
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"Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together."
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"I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters."
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"Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile. Joy shows from the eyes. It appears when we speak and walk. It cannot be kept closed inside us. It reacts outside. Joy is very infectious."
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"People are hungry for something more beautiful, for something greater than people round about can give. There is a great hunger for God in the world today. Everywhere there is much suffering, but there is also great hunger for God and love for each other."
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"There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together."
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"We belong to each other."
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