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“It will be good to die like Sister did, but for that we have to live as she did. She did not think even once that she had to be judged ... she ran toward Jesus with the greatest love but without a particle of fear.”
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“A long time after the sun had disappeared the moon succeeded it, and it knew a more somber clarity; we were still there to admire the Works of Creation and to make the most serious reflections on what we beheld and on our present position.”
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“October 22! Fifteen years ago today we arrived in our forest. How many graces since then.”
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“Several who have been educated in our houses, ... are now married and in society... We begin to see the good which our Congregation is doing in this country.”
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“...if you protect us, the work we have undertaken for the glory of God will succeed, will prosper. Of this I feel almost certain.”
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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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“...unite our actions, however little they may be, with those of [Jesus]; unite our prayers with his prayers, our work with his work, our meals, our repose with his.”
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“On the eighth of September, fifteen years ago, the day when for the first time we received Our Divine Savior in this land of American, at that very moment, America ceased to be for me a stranger-land. It became the land of my adoption.”
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