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Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.
My daughter, I see more Pharisees among Christians than there were around Pilate.
Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.
When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.
Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive me.
The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.
You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
I have never gone out to mingle with the world without losing something of myself.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever.
Let the soul who is desirous of advancing in perfection hasten to My Sacred Heart.
Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.
Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.
Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.
Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.
Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.
Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength.
Education must open the eyes and enable them to recognise the One behind the many.
The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education.
Do not talk too much. First do some Sadhana. First do, then be, then you can talk.
If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm.
A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.
You know Me in you, and from this knowledge you will derive all that is necessary.
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
We are not called upon to do all the good possible, but only that which we can do.
Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.
Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
We have not received the Spirit of God because we believe, but that we may believe.
The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.
I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.
If I said that God did not send me, I should condemn myself; truly God did send me.
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.