"Christ wishes the Christian Community to be a body that is perfect because we work together towards a single end, and the higher the motive which actuates this collaboration the higher, no doubt, will be the union. Now the end in question is supremely exalted: the continuous sanctification of the Body for the glory of God and the Lamb that was slain [Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament]."

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Katharine Drexel

#Christian Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Blessed Quotes

“Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.”
“Everyone in my family is a nurse except me.”

Source : "5 minutes to a prettier, healthier you: surfer and supermodel Marisa Miller shares..." by Claire Connors, Shape magazine, Summer 2009.
“Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is,”

Source : "Fictional character: Samantha Borgens". "Stuck in Love", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“Apple makes computers and they have to be great at providing the product they promised every individual who wants to purchase from them. This is where they should spend the bulk of their energy.”
“There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.”

Source : Ellen J. Langer (2009). “Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility”, p.35, Ballantine Books
“You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do”
“That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”
“Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?”

Source : Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.48, Vintage

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