"In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God."
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"Jesus wants me to tell you again...how much is the love He has for each one of you-beyond all what you can imagine...Not only He loves you, even more - He longs for you. He misses you when you don't come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don't feel worthy."
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"If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve"
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"The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day."
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"I can do only one thing, like a little dog follow closely the Master's footsteps. Pray that I be a cheerful dog."
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"To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty."
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"The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India."
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"The beginning of prayer is silence."
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"Our vow of chastity is nothing but our undivided love for Christ in chastity, then we proceed to the freedom of poverty-poverty is nothing but freedom. And that total surrender is obedience. If I belong to God, if I belong to Christ, then he must be able to use me. That is obedience. Then we give wholehearted service to the poor. That is service. They complete each other. That is our life."
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"Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action"
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"In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us."
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"Then we have the silence of the eyes which will always help us to see God. Our eyes are like two windows through which Christ or the world comes to our hearts. Often we need great courage to keep them closed. How often we say, I wish I had not seen this thing, and yet we take so little trouble to overcome the desire to see everything."
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"Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us."
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"Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect."
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"If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction."
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"Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for me and for all of us. It is a simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy."
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"A family that prays together stays together. As we are united at this moment, let us join also the prayer of all and everyone. What you can do I cannot do. And what I can do you cannot do. But all of us together are doing something beautiful for God."
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"Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear."
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"Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you."
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"I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase."
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