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Topic: mission
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“Souls everywhere are equally dear to our Lord, and we are determined to consecrate our life to them.”
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“Sometimes I am disheartened with this country that I feel as if I were carrying on my shoulders the weight of its highest mountains and in my heart all the thorns of its wilderness.”
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“We had but one dollar remaining... and we did not know where to get a cent for the want of the house. Still, how could I mistrust Divine Providence?”
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“I passed my days contemplating the sea, the clouds, the vessels, the fish... What a religious pensiveness seizes the soul on beholding the sky and the ocean, which seem to the voyager as the only objects in creation.”
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“Grant, O my God, that all who dwell in this house may love thee much, may love one another and may never forget why they came here.”
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“... beseech [God] for the light, the grace, the strength we need to do in all things [God's] will.”
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“It is our unwillingness to go further than the surface that makes us so unwilling to bear with the imperfections of our neighbor.”
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“... we shall love her tenderly, as we love all those whom the Lord confides to us. Affection is the only thing that we can give them.”
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“It is truly sublime to be devoted to the service of our neighbor, to cooperate so intimately with our blessed Lord in the work for which [God] laid down [God's] life. But we must not think it an easy task.”
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