Saint James the Greater If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.
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Saint Jane Frances de Chantal The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.
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Saint Jean-Baptist-Marie Vianney See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with everthing; while he who is at peace with God is alway happy, always joyous...Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!
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Saint Jerome When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Saint Joan of Arc About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing.
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Saint John Baptist de la Salle We should have frequent recourse to prayer and persevere a long time in it. God wishes to be solicited. He is not weary of hearing us. The treasure of his graces is infinite. We can do nothing more pleasing to him than to beg incessantly that He bestow them upon us.
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Saint John Bosco When I see the devil has stopped ensnaring souls, I too will cease looking for new ways to save them from his wily deceits.
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Saint John Cantius Avoid slander because it is difficult to retract. Avoid offending anyone for to ask forgiveness is not delightful.
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Saint John Cantius Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.
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Saint John of the Cross Contemplation is nothing else than a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.
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Saint John Chrysostom Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.
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Saint John Eudes I ask you to consider that our Lord Jusus Christ is your true head and that you are a member of his body. He belongs to you as the head belongs to the body. All that is his is yours: breath, heart, body, soul and all his faculties. All of these you must use as if they belonged to you, so that in serving him you may give him praise, love and glory.
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Saint John of God If we look forward to receiving God's mercy, we can never fail to do good so long as we have the strength. For if we share with the poor, out of love for God, whatever he has given to us, we shall receive according to his promise a hundredfold in eternal happiness. What a fine profit,what a blessed reward! With outstretched arms he begs us to turn toward him, to weep for our sins, and to become the servants of love, first for ourselves, then for our neighbors. Just as water extinguishes a fire, so love wipes away sin.
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Pope Saint John Paul II Only in christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God.
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Saint Josemaria Escriva When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.
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Saint Joseph Cafasso Heaven is filled with converted sinners of all kinds, and there is room for more.
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Saint Joseph of Cupertino Clearly, what God wants above all is our will which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess as though our own. When a man trains himself to acts of virtue, it is with the help of grace from God from whom all good things come that de does this. The will is what man has as his unique possession.
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Saint Junipero Serra All my life I have wanted to be a missionary. I have wanted to carry the gospel message to those who have never heard of God and the kingdom he has prepared for them.
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Saint Lawrence Justinian If all could know the happiness of the religious state, men would rush madly into it.
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Saint Lawrence O'Toole I thank God that I have not a penny in the world to dispose of.
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Pope Saint Leo the Great Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.
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Saint Leonard of Port Maurice If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.
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Saint Louis de Monfort Pray with great confidence, with confidence based upon the goodness and infinite generosity of God and upon the promises of Jesus Christ. God is a spring of living water which flows unceasingly into the hearts of those who pray.
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Saint Lydwina of Schiedam Angel of God and well-beloved brother, I trust myself to your beneficence and implore you humbly to intercede for me with my Spouse, so that He may forgive me my sins, strengthen mi in well-doing, help me by His grace to correct my faults, and lead me to Paradise, there to taste the fruition of His presence and to possess eternal life. Amen.
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