Pray, even if you feel nothing, see nothing. For when you are dry, empty, sick or weak, at such a time is your prayer most pleasing to God, even though you may find little joy in it. This is true of all believing prayer.
JULIAN OF NORWICHHe that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
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Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God’s will.
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The Enemy is overcome by the blessed Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
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We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker’s marvellous love so fully.
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Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.
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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.
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Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.
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Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.
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He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.
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He said not ‘Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased’; but he said, ‘Thou shalt not be overcome.
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God is nearer to us than our own spirit.
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This is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
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Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.
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The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.
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God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
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