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Author: Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
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“I must tell you with simplicity, my good Father, that this time I feel myself overwhelmed...”
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“Sister St. Francis Xavier is necessary for my existence. She is my oldest daughter, the friend of my soul, which she reads as I do hers. I have need of her advice, of her example. I will even say of her little scoldings.”
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“If all but understood the power of that one word charity; how it unites and binds and welds together.”
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“Happy, ah, thrice happy are they who can look forward to the eternal future with calm and confidence, who can throw themselves with love into the bosom of God, the center of felicity!”
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“Never scold nor punish more than the fault deserves. Children naturally love justice even when it punishes them.”
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“Obtain for me that my death may not be an unprovided one and that I may always be ready to say to the Lord when he calls, "My God, here I am."”
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“Who has ever perished that entrusted herself to Mary? Take her as your model on the way.”
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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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“... yet there is no assurance for the future of the Sisters and of the children other than that Divine Providence takes care of the birds of the air and the grass of the field.”
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“As long as we live we shall commit faults. This is part of our daily experience; but what we are bound to do is repair them as well as we can.”
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