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Any form of over-indulgence creates within the body warning signs of destruction.


Mother Angelica

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SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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SAINT IGNATIUS We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierar...
SAINT IGNATIUS It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ...
SAINT IGNATIUS Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w...
SAINT IGNATIUS In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra...
SAINT IGNATIUS Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe...
SAINT IGNATIUS Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n...
SAINT IGNATIUS Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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SAINT IGNATIUS May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
SAINT IGNATIUS True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
SAINT IGNATIUS May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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SAINT BERNARD The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure...
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SAINT BERNARD That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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SAINT BERNARD I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor...
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MOTHER THERESA If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
MOTHER THERESA Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater ri...
MOTHER THERESA When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food...
MOTHER THERESA The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
MOTHER THERESA Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hea...
MOTHER THERESA I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, tha...
MOTHER THERESA There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor -- Jesus. We take vows of cha...
MOTHER THERESA It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
MOTHER THERESA We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in th...
MOTHER THERESA Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money...
MOTHER THERESA To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
MOTHER THERESA There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
MOTHER THERESA As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God an...
MOTHER THERESA One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
MOTHER THERESA I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
MOTHER THERESA There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; ...
MOTHER THERESA Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's ki...
MOTHER THERESA We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. I will be a saint means I will despoil m...
MOTHER THERESA Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac...
MOTHER THERESA For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none, If there be one, try to find i...
MOTHER GOOSE