Hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive … - Francis of Assisi

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Grandmothers are to life what the Ph. D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

Francis of Assisi

Hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.

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Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light

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Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

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Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

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Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

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Make me an instrument of thy peace.

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