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You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

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Loving God and loving one's neighbor are really the same thing.

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Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.

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I began to live as if there were no one save God and me in the world.

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There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

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God always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but to please Him.

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The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

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Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.

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Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.

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If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

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Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!

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Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

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I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

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Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

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That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

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Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.

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It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.

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We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.

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If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it, and He will quickly calm the sea.

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Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.

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GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

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We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

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Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end.

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That we ought, once for all, heartily to put our whole trust in GOD, and make a total surrender of ourselves to Him, secure that He would not deceive us.

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In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.

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Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

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The end we ought to propose to ourselves is to become, in this life, the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

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We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

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A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.

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Were I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.

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