Be so still inside that you can listen at every moment to what life is offering you.
-David Steindl-Rast
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To know truth, to love goodness, to delight in beauty, this is our human purpose or-more simply-to know, to love, and to praise God.
-Basil Hume, OSB
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The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word.
-Isaiah 50:4
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It is only we who brood over our sins. God does not brood over them, God dumps them at the bottom of the sea.
-St. Benedict
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Ever anew, God asks, "What is my love worth?"
-Dietrich Bonohoeffer
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Our Lord is the ground from which our prayer springs forth. I am sure that no one ever asks for mercy and grace with right intentions unless mercy and grace have been given first.
-Julian of Norwich
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Humility is to be still under the weathers of God's will.
-Jessica Powers
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Prayer is not us trying to grab hold of God. Prayer is to recognize God coming to us.
-Stephen Verney
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"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
-Matthew 11:29
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There where clinging to things end, there God begins to be.
-Meister Eckhart
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My people perish for want of knowledge.
-Hosea 4:6
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In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is coming to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and kingly power, I charge you to preach the word to stay with the task whether convenient or incovenient--correcting, reproving, appealing---constantly teaching and never losing patience.
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The Lord God is good; his steadfast love endures forever.
-Psalm 100:5
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Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.
-St Francis of Assisi
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Not in rewards but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.
-John Townsend Trowbridge
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Strong is what we make each other.
-Marge Piercy
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.
-Maya Angelou
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When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
-John Locke
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Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
-Henry David Thoreau Walden
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Pride alienates man from heaven, humility leads to heaven.
-St. Bridget of Sweden
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Where there is patience and humility, there is neither wrath nor disturbance.
-St. Francis of Assisi
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The most helpful thing I have learned in my bitter suffering is to unite myself with Christ on the Cross, who unites himself with me on my cross.
-Rev. Jim Willig
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
-Henry David Thoreau
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In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking. Let us leave to God the decisions as to what shall be said.
St. Francis de Sales
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What is to give light must endure burning.
-Viktor Frankl
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Suffering is a dreadful teacher, but often the beginning of the best in us. Like a grain of sand in an oyster, it can create a magnificent pearl.
-Tessa Bielecki
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The paradox is that by letting go, we hold on to the very thing that is permanent; not the song, but the source of the song.
-Philip Toshio Sudo
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No one can become wise without experience; no one can become a scholar without studying.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Whoever does good is from God. Whoever does evil has not seen God.
-3 John 11
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To pray is to be vulnerably open to God's unpredictable grace.
Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God and, trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father's house. I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there to prepare a place for you...I will come back and take you with me so that you may be where I am going.
