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FOR WHAT TO PRAY
- [H]ealth enough to make work a pleasure.
- Wealth enough to support your needs.
- Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
- Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
- Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
- Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
- Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
- Faith enough to make real the things of God.
- Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
–Johann von Goethe (1749-1932)
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Pray firstly to be purified of passions, secondly to be freed from ignorance and forgetfulness, and thirdly to be delivered from all temptation and forsaking.
–Saint Nilus of Sinai (d. 430)
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First of all pray to be purified from your passions. Secondly, pray to be delivered from ignorance. Thirdly, pray to be freed from all temptation and abandonment.
–Evagrius Ponticus (345-399)
Blessed Virgin Mary, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
When your eyes are filled with tears, go to the one who consoles the afflicted. When your pain is too great, go to the one who protects the faithful. When you have yielded to sin, go to the one who is the help of sinners. This is why all the glory of Mary comes from Jesus. She would be nothing if her Son was not the Lord Jesus and if her life had not been spent living for him. If you are separated from the Lord, your own life has no value.
–Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan (1928-2002)
Blessed Virgin Mary, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Our mother is a model of correspondence to grace. If we contemplate her life, our Lord will give us the light we need to divinize our everyday existence.
–Saint Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975)
Blessed Virgin Mary, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn’t fully understand and asks about what she doesn’t know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.
–Saint Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975)
