"Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him."
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"I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.- 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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"I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament."
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"We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there."
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"Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy."
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"We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us."
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"God demands not that I be successful, but that I be faithful."
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"It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves."
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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 LOVE WITH GOD."
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"Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?"
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"If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't."
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"I have come to you, Jesus, to take your touch before I begin my day. Let your eyes rest upon my eyes for a while let me take to my work the assurance of your friendship. Fill my mind to last through the desert of noise. Let your blessed sunshine fill the peaks of my thoughts. And give me strength for those who need me."
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"Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty."
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"Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess"
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"A day lived without doing something good for others is a day not worth living."
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"We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?"
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"In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion."
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"Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets."
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"It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America."
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"Be faithful in the little things."
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