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• ‟ To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

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• ‟ In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

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• ‟ Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

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• ‟ If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

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• ‟ Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

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• ‟ Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

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• ‟ God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

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• ‟ What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

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• ‟ Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

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• ‟ The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

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• ‟ Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

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• ‟ God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.

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• ‟ In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

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• ‟ Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

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