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but let’s pray short ones full of love.
I shall keep the silence of my heart with greater care, so that in the silence of my heart I hear His words of comfort and from the fullness of my heart I comfort Jesus in the distressing disguise of the poor.
We shall not waste our time in looking for extraordinary experiences in our life of contemplation but live by
pure faith, ever watchful and ready for His coming by doing our day-to-day duties with extraordinary love and devotion.
Our life of contemplation simply put is to realize God’s constant presence and His tender love for us in t...
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All our words will be useless unless they come from within. Words that do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. Today, more than ever,
need to pray for the light to know the will of God, for the love to accept the will of God, for the way to do the will of God.
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.
I feel that we too often focus only on the negative aspect of life — on what is bad.
If we were more willing to see the good and the beautiful things that surround us, we would be able to transform our families. From there, we would change our next-door neighbors and then others who live in our neighborhood or city. We would be able to bring peace and love to our world, which hungers so much for these things.
If we really want to c...
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world, we will not be able to do it with bombs or with other weapons of destruction. Let us conquer the world with our love. Let us interweave our lives with bonds of sacrifice and love, a...
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things in order to show a great love for God and for our neighbor. It is the intensity of love we put into our gestures that makes t...
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Peace and war start within one...
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It is easy to love those who live far away. It is not always easy to love those who live right next to us. It is easier to offer a dish of rice to meet the hunger of a needy person than to comfort the
loneliness and the anguish of someone in our own home who does not feel loved.
From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love. I want you all to fill your hearts with great love. Don’t imagine that love, to be true and burning, must be extraordinary. No;
what we need in our love is the continuous desire to love the One we love.
It does not matter how much we give, but how much love we put into our giving.
When we all see God in each other, we will love one another as He loves us all. That
have been created in order to love and to be loved.
Always be faithful in little things, for in them our strength lies.
Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best. Neither glory in your success, but refer all to God in deepest thankfulness.
If you are discouraged, it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own powers.
Intense love does not measure — it just gives.
A joyful heart is a normal result of a heart burning with love. Joy is strength.
We will never know how much good just a simple smile can do. We
tell people how kind, forgiving, and understanding God is, but are we the living proof?
Keep in mind that our community is
not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore, let us be extremely patient with each other’s faults and failures.
Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence. Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.
everyone were capable of discovering the image of God in their neighbors, do you think that we would still need tanks and generals?
If you are humble, nothing will touch
you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
We all have been created in the image of God to love and to be loved.
We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with Him right now, to be happy with Him at this very moment. But being happy with Him now means loving like He loves, helping like He helps, giving as He gives, serving as He serves, rescuing as He rescues, being with Him twenty-four hours a day, touching Him in His distressing disguise.
When your heart feels restless, when your heart feels hurt, when your heart feels like breaking, remember, “I am precious to Him. He loves me. He has called me by my name. I am His. He loves me. God loves me.” And to prove that love He died on the cross. How unlike Him we
“Naturally, I would like to give the treasure I have to you, but I cannot. I can only pray for you to receive it.
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.
We need to be pure in heart to see Jesus in the person of the spiritually poorest. Therefore, the more disfigured the image of God is in that person, the greater will be our faith and devotion in seeking Jesus’ face and lovingly ministering to Him.
Remember, He has chosen us; we have not first chosen Him. We must respond by making something
beautiful for God — something very beautiful. For this we must give our all, our utmost. We must cling to Jesus, grasp Him, have a grip on Him, and never let go for anything. We must fall in love with Jesus.
“Love one another as I have loved you,” (John 15:12 RSV) must be not only a light for us but a flame that consumes the self in us.
He became the Bread of Life to satisfy our hunger for God, our hunger for love.
we have been created in the image of God, then we have been created to love, because God is love.
Don’t allow anything to interfere with your love for Jesus. You belong to Him. Nothing can separate you from Him. That one sentence is important to remember. He will be your joy, your strength. If you hold onto that sentence, temptations and difficulties will come, but nothing will break you. Remember, you have been created for great things.
Give yourself fully to Jesus, He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness.
The world today is hungry not only for bread but hungry for love, hungry to be wanted, to be loved.
They’re hungry to feel the presence of Christ. In many countries, people have everything except that presence, that understanding.
Mothers are at the heart of the family. Children need their mothers. If the mother is there, the children will be there too. For the family to be whole, the children and the mother also need the father to be present in the home. I think if we can help to bring them all back together, we will be doing a beautiful thing for God.
