"Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something."
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"Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness."
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"If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too."
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"We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means."
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"My key to heaven is that I loved Jesus in the night."
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"I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering."
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"If we were able to see God's image in our neighbor, do you think weapons and generals would be needed?"
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"Do great in the small things."
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"O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!"
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"Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up."
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"Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe. —contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation. —universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor."
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"In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love."
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"By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more."
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"There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful together"
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"Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation.'"
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"Joy is the characteristic by which God uses us to re-make the distressing into the desired, the discarded into the creative. Joy is prayer-Joy is strength-Joy is love-Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
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"We must love prayer. It widens the heart to the point of making it capable of containing the gift that God makes of himself. Ask and seek, and your heart will be widened to welcome him and to keep him within itself."
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"The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized."
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"The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted."
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"All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation."
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