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/ page 1149 of 1205 /God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
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God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
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All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
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There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
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The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
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Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
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Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
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Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
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Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
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Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
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There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
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There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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