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  Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Perseverance, Heart, Waiting

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• When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about justice, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about peace, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we are speaking about Christ.

  Ambrose

  Life, God, Christian

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• The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God...and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary.

  Pope Pius X

  Beautiful, Mother, Prayer

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• Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  Yield, Giving, Doe

  St Teresa of Avila, of Avila Teresa, Saint (2007). “The Way of Perfection”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiring, Philosophical, Justice

  "Majority of one". Book by Sydney J. Harris, p. 283, 1957.

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• Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.

  Cyril of Jerusalem

  God, Christian, Religious

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• A Christian is not his own master, since all his time belongs to God.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Christian, Masters

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  What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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• Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

  Anthony of Padua

  Doe, Credit, Guilty

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• You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Enemy, Our Prayers

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• Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this holy Sacrament. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me.

  Saint Blaise

  Love, God, Christian

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• It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Catholic, Hard, Catholic Church

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• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Faith, Believe

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• Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Light, Catholic

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• Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

  Vincent de Paul

  God, Helping Others, Community

  Vincent De Paul (1990). “Correspondence Conference Documents”, New City Pr

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Firsts, Ends, Daily Work

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• Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to receive it; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Heart, Catholic

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• The measure of love is to love without measure. - attributed to Saint Augustine

  Cassandra Clare

  Love Is, Augustine

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

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• No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. Do not talk about Jesus Christ as long as you love this world.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

  Charles Peguy

  Tragedy, Has Beens

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• All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

  Mother Teresa

  Father, Giving, Catholic

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• Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Poverty, Reason, Poor

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• Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage.

  Josephine Bakhita

  Beautiful, God, Faith

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• To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Faith, Powerful, Thoughtful

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