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Topic: doing good
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“Thoughts are swirling around in my head — actions and prayer around water, air, soil, children, women. But how to narrow all the possibilities into one meaningful prayer and one meaningful practice that will carry me through the days of Lent? This will take more quiet, more prayer, some conversation with a soul mate.”
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“If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be [God's] alone...”
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“We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do.”
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“Charity consists in loving sincerely persons whose inclinations are most opposed to ours, in pardoning those who injure us.”
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“...what does it matter what becomes of us, provided God's work be accomplished? God's work - ah, it will ever be accomplished.”
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“Make a good offering of all your actions to God in the morning, and then from time to time during the day; for instance, when the clock strikes...”
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“Be humble, like your Mother [Mary], devoted like her to the interests of God and your neighbor...”
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“It is true that you have the practical faith since you daily perform many good works. But how are they done? What spirit animates you?”
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“Oh, how happy you would be if you could see all the good that your Daughters of the Woods are doing and the good spirit which animates them.”
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