"Every morning, even in the bitterest winter, she stood before the chapel door until it opened at four and remained there until after the last Mass. Out from her Caughnawaga cabin at dawn and straight-way to chapel to adore the Blessed Sacrament, hear every Mass; back again during the day to hear instruction, and at night for a last prayer or Benediction."

-- Kateri Tekakwitha

#Morning Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Blessed Quotes

“We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.”
“Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.”

Source : James Thomas Fields (1881). “Underbrush”
“Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.”
“The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.”
“All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I donâ€™t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”
“Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."”
“It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.”
“Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.”

Source : George Gamow (1970). “My world line; an informal autobiography”, Viking Adult

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