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“The suffering of this life not only can make our temperament more like the Divine Personality of Jesus, but it detaches us from this world. This Divine preparation opens our souls to the working and pruning of the Father.”  Mother Angelica

“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God.” Thomas Merton

”A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.”

“What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Saviour in all its fullness!”  St. Bernadette

”The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful.”