Mary Euphrasia Pelletier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.
-- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

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Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.
-- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

#Causes #Harm #Adaptability
Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.
-- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

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Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.
-- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

#Love You #Commitment #Calling
A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.
-- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

#May #Degrees #Mindfulness
To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state of distress, those to whom we look for help leave us; or what is worse, add to our affliction by heaping fresh troubles upon us. He is ever there waiting to help us.
-- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

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The Blessed Sacrament is the first and supreme object of our worship. We must preserve in the depths of our hearts a constant and uninterrupted profound adoration of this precious pledge of Divine Love.
-- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

#Blessed #Heart #Profound

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.
He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.
We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.
Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.
I read like the flame reads the wood.
Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

Mary Euphrasia Pelletier famous quotes

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