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Wisdom of the Day | Feb 25, 2018
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“Do not be afraid of what God asks of you!”
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“Live in holy joy and fly from anything that would dissipate your spirit.”
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“When many rejoice together, there is a richer joy in each individual.”
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“The food of real love is sacrifice.”
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“No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.”
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“If love dwells in you, you have no enemy on earth.”
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“Christ the Lord hath risen, our Joy that hath no end!”
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“No one can grow who does not accept his smallness.”
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“God’s Love for us is not greater in heaven than it is now.”
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“Conscience has rights because it has duties.”
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“We must not fear fear.”
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“Charity is the form, mover, mother, and root of all virtues.”
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“First let a little love find entrance into the heart, and the rest will follow.”
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“No one heals himself by wounding another.”
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“In baptism we all have an inheritance, which is the ability to become saints.”
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“The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.”
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“The hands should be at work, the heart with God.”
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“Peace begins with a smile.”
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“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”
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“The mercy of God, my son, is infinitely greater than your malice.”
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“Those who have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.”
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“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
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“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”
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“Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.”
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“Love wants to suffer for the Beloved.”
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“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
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“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
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“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
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“Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person.”
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“Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.”
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“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
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“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
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“There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.”
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“Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.”
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“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
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“Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.”
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“Never trust a dog to watch your food.”
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“Without discipline, there’s no life at all.”
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“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
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“Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.”
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“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
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“Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.”
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“Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.”
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“The soul is greater than the body: the body becomes sick, and with that it is finished.”
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“To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.”
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“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”
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“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”
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“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
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“True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.”
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“Come back to the Lord with all your heart during Lent.”
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“Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.”
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“True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.”
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“To surrender who you are and to live without belief is… even more terrible than dying young.”
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“The Church is the Ship outside of which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat…”
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“Our perfection does not consist of doing extraordinary things but to do the ordinary well”
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“If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel.”
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A path is made by walking on it.
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I do not know everything; still, many things I understand.
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When in doubt, choose to live.
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Let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face.
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Sorrow looks back; worry looks around; faith looks up.
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My job is to inform, not to convince.
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Lent comes providentially to awaken us, to shake us from our lethargy.
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The art of being wise is in knowing what to overlook.
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Work is love made visible.
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Too much fear makes one labor without love.
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No time to rejoice for those who walk among the noise and deny the voice.
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If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door!
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It takes a very long time to become young.
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It is the struggle of every person: be free or be a slave.
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When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
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No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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In God’s will, there is great peace.
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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Ask Christ to help you become happy.
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If you see someone of rare intellect, ask what books that person reads.
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No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.
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Wonder leads to knowing
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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Better to be silent and be real, than to talk and not be real.
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Be cheerful, do good, and let the sparrows chirp.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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During the night, we must wait for the light.
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To change the world, we must be good to those who cannot repay us.
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Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.
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It ain’t what people call you, it’s what you answer to.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Be who you are, and be that well.
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Put your ear down close to your soul, and listen hard.
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